Bentz v. Recile’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 1026 · 1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2021
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1631
Relies on Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman · Ellis v. Great Southwestern Corp. · Dubin v. United States · Aguacate Consolidated Mines, Inc. v. Deeprock, Inc. · 512 F. Supp. 879 - Stewart Coach Industries, Inc. v. Moore
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants have received all the notice service of process is designed to give [under the Mississippi long-arm statute]. While the better practice is to re-serve defendants after a case is transferred from a federal district court lacking in personam jurisdiction, a remand to the district court to allow such reservice in this case would, to this Court, be merely a useless act and a waste of judicial resources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the convenience of the parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action”
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.