Collins v. Gorman’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.3d 1057 · 1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. W&O, Inc. (2000), Halasa v. ITT Educational Services, Inc. (2012)
6 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. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1916 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1921 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Henderson v. United States · United States v. Merritt Meridian Construction Corp. · Hudson v. Nabisco Brands, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prevailing party [can] recover service costs that do not exceed the marshal's fees, no matter who actually effected service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“refers to the fees 'of' the marshal but does not require payment 'to' the marshal”
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.