Green v. Humphrey Elevator & Truck Co.’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 877 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004), Grand Entertainment Group, Ltd. v. Star Media Sales, Inc. (1993)
49 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Adams · Borelli v. City of Reading · Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Winters v. Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc. · Morse v. Elmira Country Club
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 without prejudice____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Despite the severity of such a result [dismissal after the running of the statute of limitations], courts ... seem unanimously to have held that dismissal for service made more than 120 days after filing is required under the rule absent a showing of good cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant who refuses to return the acknowledgment form [to] be personally served--within the 120-day period--with copies of the summons and complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friedman v. Estate Of · Friedman
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.