Thompson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.3d 20 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Panaras v. Liquid Carbonic Industries Corp. (1996), Horenkamp v. Van Winkle & Co. (2005)
11 federal appellate · 5 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 Petrucelli v. Bohringer and Ratzinger Gmbh · Espinoza v. United States · Mendez v. Elliot · 848 F. Supp. 711 - Turner v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint, the court, upon motion or on its own initiative after notice to the plaintiff, shall dismiss the action without prejudice as to that defendant or direct that service be effected within a specified time; provided that if the plaintiff shows good cause for the failure, the court shall extend the time for service for an appropriate period....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhen a district court entertains a motion to extend time for service, it must first determine whether good cause exists. If good cause is present, the district court must extend time for sendee. If good cause does not exist, the court may, in its discretion, decide whether to dismiss the case without prejudice or extend the time for service.”
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.