Putnam v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 903 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fsa v. Oaklawn Apartments (1992), Kirkland Broitman v. Kirkland Hermestroff
8 federal appellate · 23 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
Relies on Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Winters v. Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc. · Townsel v. County of Contra Costa · Lovelace v. Acme Markets, Inc. · Braxton 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“good faith on the part of the party seeking the enlargement and some reasonable basis for noncompliance within the time specified”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is trial counsel's responsibility to monitor the activity of the process server and to take reasonable steps to assure that a defendant is timely served.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“operate as a dismissal with prejudice [because] the action will be time-barred.”
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.