Ellis v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1988
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Herb v. Pitcairn Belcher v. Louisville & N.R. Co · Herb v. Pitcairn · Matheny v. Porter · Fields v. Washington · Adler v. Northern Hotel Co.
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.
“The commencement of an action in a court which lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter will toll the statute of limitations if the court has the authority under the law to transfer the action to a court of competent jurisdiction. Herb v. Pitcairn, 324 U. S. 117 , 65 S. Ct. 459 , 89 L. Ed. 789 and 325 U. S. 77 , 65 S. Ct. 954 , 89 L. Ed. 1483 . [Id. at 102],”
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.