Moncrief v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 595 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Habib v. General Motors Corp. (1994), Jones v. Frank (1992)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Hiatt v. Brown · Winters v. Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc. · 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.
“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....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the United States attorney for the district in which the action is brought ... and by sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint by registered or certified mail to the Attorney General of the United States....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by serving the United States and by sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint by registered or certified mail to such officer....”
4 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.