Hughes v. Roosevelt’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.2d 901 · 1939
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably Kyle v. Green Acres at Verona, Inc. (1965), Redman v. United States (1949)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Marshall v. International Mercantile Marine Co. · The Sydfold · Westfall Larson & Co. v. All-Man-Hubble Tug Boat Co. · Scallon v. Manhattan Railway Co. · Nebola v. Minnesota Iron 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the New York statute it is an ihteresting question whether insanity arising from a defendant’s act which is the cause of action sued upon prevents the statute from running within the meaning of the exception. The exact point apparently has not been authoritatively passed upon in New York, though the courts point out, as the statute emphasizes, that the disability must exist when the cause accrues. * * * In other jurisdictions there is some conflict in the cases; some, at least, hold that, if insanity results at once or very soon after the injury, the statutory disability exists. Hughes v. Roosevelt, 107 F.2d 901, 903 (2d Cir. 1939).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Even] if insanity did not result at once, [plaintiff] may still be able to furnish proof excusing his apparent laches. Insanity of such a nature as to show lack of sufficient knowledge to bring suit during the period of the running of the statute may well provide such an excuse, even if it does not technically toll the * * * statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[It] is an interesting question whether insanity arising from a defendant’s act which is the cause of action sued upon prevents the statute from running within the meaning of the exception.””
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.