Personis v. Oiler’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 424 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Datskow v. Teledyne, Inc. (1990), ABB Industrial Systems, Inc. v. Prime Technology, Inc. (1997)
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y making the length of the limitations period depend on the manner in which a plaintiff attempts to effect service, section 203(b)(5) constitutes an ‘integral part’ of New York’s statute of limitations. Since federal law neither offers an alternate method of obtaining the statutory extension nor states a conflicting rule of procedure implicitly prohibiting the availability of the statute in diversity suits, federal courts may give a state service provision like section 203(b)(5) full legal effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where no federal rule had displaced state tolling statutes either expressly or by fair implication, federal courts [a]re required to follow the relevant state procedures governing service of process.”
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.