Resolution Trust Corp. v. Starkey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “one is required to be diligent in serving process . . . before good cause will be found”
• good cause for failure to timely serve defendant was lacking where plaintiff offered no explanation for not having acted diligently in discovering defendant's address

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• John A. McCurdy Jr., M.D. John A. McCurdy Jr., M.D., Facs, Inc. v. American Board of Plastic Surgery
  Third Circuit· 1998-09-22· cited 1,917×
• Pegram v. Honeywell, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-03-05· cited 320×
• Ingram v. Earthman
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-10-21· cited 88×
• Bang v. Pittman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-09· cited 45×
• LeBlanc v. Allstate Ins. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-03-07· cited 25×
• Erhard v. Roberts
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-07-19· cited 22×
• Calderon v. Bank of America N.A.
  W.D. Texas· 2013-04-23· cited 22×
• Lohn v. Morgan Stanley DW, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 2009-08-26· cited 17×
• Buescher v. First United Bank & Trust (In Re Buescher)
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-04-13· cited 16×
• Texas Tech University v. Spiegelberg
  N.D. Texas· 2006-11-02· cited 12×
• Payne v. Collins
  E.D. Texas· 1997-06-25· cited 9×
• Hicks v. Bexar County, Tex.
  W.D. Texas· 1997-06-13· cited 8×
• Hill v. Silsbee Independent School District
  E.D. Texas· 1996-03-14· cited 8×
• King Airway Co. v. Public Trustee of Routt County, Colo.
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-04-17· cited 7×
• United States v. Chevron Pipe Line Co.
  N.D. Texas· 2006-06-28· cited 7×
• Engenium Solutions, Inc. v. Symphonic Technologies, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 2013-02-15· cited 7×
• Brumley v. Pfizer, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 2001-06-15· cited 5×
• Flowers v. Tex. Military Dep't
  S.D. Texas· 2018-12-11· cited 5×
• United States v. Rodrigue
  Court of International Trade· 2009-10-01· cited 4×
• Hanold v. Raytheon Co.
  S.D. Texas· 2009-09-30· cited 4×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• King v. Dogan
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-09-13· cited 438×
• Alex John, Jr. v. State of Louisiana (Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities)
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-04-15· cited 349×
• Hibernia National Bank v. Administracion Central Sociedad Anonima, Jorge Raoul Garcia Granados De Garay
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-11-20· cited 294×
• George Kersh v. Norman Derozier
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-08-15· cited 175×
• Life Insurance Co. of Virginia v. Gar-Dal, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1978-07-12· cited 155×
• Rufus M. Carimi v. Royal Carribean Cruise Line, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-05-04· cited 150×
• Bernard E. Keiser v. Coliseum Properties, Inc., A. Don Fleck v. Auditing Services, Inc., H. G. Lortscher v. Auditing Services, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-03-24· cited 145×
• Clark v. Dedina
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1983-09-15· cited 82×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., in Its Corporate Capacity v. Cardinal Oil Well Servicing Co., Inc., Jim Cardinal, Don H. Wilson and Paul Condit
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-02-25· cited 77×
• Jernigan v. Bank One, Texas, NA
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-10· cited 44×
• McDonald v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-04-18· cited 42×