Bricker v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2023
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Carson v. Maurer · Johnson v. Moses · Lakeman v. LaFrance · Bricker v. Crane · Bricker v. Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fraudulent concealment rule states that when facts essential to the cause of action are fraudulently concealed, the statute of limitations is tolled until the plaintiff has discovered such facts or could have done so in the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contesting in a subsequent proceeding on a different cause of action any question or fact actually litigated and determined against [him] in a prior suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it cannot be said that the plaintiff was prejudiced because he was unaware of the cause of his injury or did not know his adversary”
1 later decision 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.