Benny v. Pipes’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 489 · 1986
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Thiele v. Stich (1988), Bullion v. Gillespie (1990)
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Hanna v. Plumer · Johnson v. Glick · Ellis v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes · Lee v. Texas
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general appearance or responsive pleading by a defendant that fails to dispute personal jurisdiction will waive any defect in service or personal jurisdiction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not present the question whether [a state] might validly impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on prisoner service of process on prison officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A failure to make a timely answer to a properly served complaint will justify the entry of a default judgment.”
2 later decisions 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.