Frasca v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 450 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Zapata v. City of New York (2007), Watters v. Stripling (1996)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Messenger v. United States · Geiger v. Allen · Jordan 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 35 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 ...””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The 120 days [provided by Rule 4(m)] runs from the filing of the complaint, and the statute of limitations for the underlying claim is tolled during that period. If service is not complete by the end of the 120 days, however, the governing statute of limitations again becomes applicable, and the plaintiff must refile prior to the termination of the statute of limitations period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moncrief v. Stone
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.