Geiger v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 330 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Deppe v. Tripp (1988), Smith v. Severn (1997)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · United States v. Jerry · Ordower v. Feldman · Winters v. Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc. · Combs v. Nick Garin Trucking
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 79 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 upon the court’s own initiative with notice to such party or upon motion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule in this and other circuits is that service by mail is not complete until an acknowledgment is filed with the court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friedman v. Estate Of · Friedman“intended to force parties and their attorneys to be diligent in prosecuting their causes of action.”
5 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.