Van Diest v. Towle’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Radiology Professional Corp. v. Trinidad Area Health Ass'n (1978), Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 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 Shepherd v. Thompson · Hanson v. Towle · Clementson v. Williams · Thomas v. Carey · Conklin v. Shaw
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The modern tendency is to look with favor upon statutes of limitation, which are considered wise and beneficent in their purpose and tendency, are looked upon as statutes of repose, and are held to be rules of property vital to the welfare of society (34 Am. Jur., p. 24, §14), and while formerly looked upon with disfavor and strictly construed, the present judicial attitude is that of liberal construction.””
2 later decisions 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.