Shelby County v. Bragg’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Lightner Mining Co. v. Lane (1911), Hunter v. Hunter (1951)
5 federal appellate · 44 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 Wood v. Carpenter · Kane v. Bloodgood · Keeton's Heirs v. Keeton's Administrator · Wells v. Halpin · Cole v. McGlathry
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Statutes of limitation are favored In the law, and cannot be avoided unless the party seeking to do so brings himself directly within some exception. A party seeking to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations because of the fraud must aver and show that he used due diligence to detect it, and, if he had the means of discovery in his hands, he will be held to have known it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It cannot be said that the evidence of the facts constituting plaintiff’s cause of action was conceded or suppressed. The evidence all existed upon the official books and records of the office open to the examination of the court. The expert accountants who afterward made an examination encountered no difficulties in making an account of fees collected. They reported no destruction of books, or the suppression or concealment of no fact which could prevent an accurate statement being made. “It is insisted that the duty of this officer and his relation to the county court was such that the latter had the right to rely implicitly on the correctness of these statements and that making a statement which did not fully and truthfully account for all fees collected is such a fraudulent concealment of the facts as would delay the running of the statute. But the county court is required to examine the statement and see that they are correct before approving them; it was not intended that they should accept as true any statement the officer should make. The evidence by which the truth could have been ascertained was at hand and open to their examination. Indeed, the statements themselves did not all purport to be accurate; they do not pretend to give an itemized account of the fees collected and from whom; they virtually refer the court to the records of the offices for the evidence. ‘‘ The county court is given the power to audit the accounts of these officers and it is made their dut”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If any person, by absconding or concealing himself, or by any other improper act, prevent the commencement of an action, such action may be commenced within the time herein limited, after the commencement of such action shall have ceased to be so prevented.””
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.