993 So. 2d 378 - Foss v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 912 So. 2d 134 - Monsanto Co. v. Hall · Watters v. Stripling · 931 So. 2d 1274 - Scaggs v. GPCH-GP, INC. · 731 So. 2d 1192 - Rains v. Gardner · 764 So. 2d 1234 - Lang v. Bay St. Louis/Waveland School District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“¶ 15. This Court has held that good cause is likely (but not always) to be found when the plaintiffs failure to complete service in timely fashion is a result of the conduct of a third person, typically the process server, the defendant has evaded service of process or engaged in misleading conduct, the plaintiff has acted diligently in trying to effect service, or there are understandable mitigating circumstances, or the plaintiff is proceeding pro se or in forma pauperis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
2 later decisions 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.