Powell v. Starwalt’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 964 · 1989
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Herman v. City of Chicago (1989), In the Matter of Gladys E. Shondel, Debtor-Appellant (1991)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. · Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co. · West v. Conrail
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 63 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the delay [in obtaining service] has been so long that it signifies failure to prosecute--or if the delay entails disobedience to an order of the court-- then dismissal may be with prejudice under Rule 41(b), which covers 'failure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of court.'”
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.