Rutledge v. Scott Chotin, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 820 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2024
5 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 45 U.S.C. § 56 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act)) · 46 U.S.C. § 30106
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Chick Kam Choo v. Exxon Corp. · 121 Ill. 2d 278 - McClain v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) if the plaintiff elects to file the action in another forum within six months of the dismissal order, the defendant shall accept service of process from that court; and (ii) if the statute of limitations has run in the other forum, the defendant shall waive that defense. If the defendant refuses to abide by these conditions, the cause shall be reinstated for further proceedings in the court in which the dismissal was granted. If the court in the other forum refuses to accept jurisdiction, the plaintiff may, within 30 days of the final order refusing jurisdiction, reinstate the action in the court in which the dismissal was granted. The costs attending a dismissal may be awarded in the discretion of the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the use of the present perfect tense (`has run') indicates that the `running' is to be concurrent with the dismissal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.