McGregor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 156 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Zapata v. City of New York (2007), Watters v. Stripling (1996)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 2401
Relies on Davidson v. Keenan · Jordan v. United States · Frasca v. United States · Zankel 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a plaintiff fails to provide service within the required 120-day time 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’ absent a showing of good cause why service was not made within that period.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“apparently deliberate attempt to secure the demise of plaintiffs' claims”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If (1) necessary parties in the government have actual notice of a suit; (2) the government suffers no prejudice from a technical defect in service; (3) there is a justifiable excuse for the failure to serve properly; and (4) the plaintiff would be severely prejudiced if the complaint were dismissed, then courts should not construe Rule 4(d)(4) [Rule 4(i)’s predecessor] so rigidly as to deny plaintiffs relief from dismissal because of a technical defect in service.”
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.