Adams’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 748 So. 2d 263 - Thomas v. Silvers (1999), Beachside Associates, LLC v. Fishman (2010)
10 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Petrucelli v. Bohringer and Ratzinger Gmbh · Espinoza v. United States · Edwards v. Edwards · Iam National Pension Fund Benefit Plan v. Wakefield Industries Incorporated Division of Capehart Corporation · Traina v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The new subdivision explicitly provides that the court shall allow additional time if there is good cause for the plaintiffs failure to effect service in the prescribed 120 days, and authorizes the court to relieve a plaintiff of the consequences of an application of this subdivision even if there is no good cause shown. Such relief formerly was afforded in some cases, partly in reliance on Rule 6(b). Relief may be justified, for example, if the applicable statute of limitations would bar the refiled action, or if the defendant is evading service or conceals a defect in attempted service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint and the party on whose behalf such service was required cannot show good cause why such service was not made within that period, the action shall be dismissed as to that defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court lack[s] jurisdiction over that defendant whether or not [the defendant] had actual notice of the lawsuit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.