Wheeler v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 245 · 1890
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 12 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Campbell v. City of Haverhill (1895), Davis v. Mills (1904)
34 federal appellate · 12 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Edwards v. Kearzey · Terry v. Anderson · Green v. Biddle · McGahey v. State of Virginia
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was undoubtedly within the constitutional power of the Legislature to require as to existing causes of action that suits for their enforcement should be barred unless brought within a period less than that prescribed at the time the contract was made or the liability incurred from which the cause of action arose. The exertion of this power is, of course, subject to the fundamental condition that a reasonable time, taking all the circumstances into consideration, be given by the new law for the commencement of an action before the bar takes effect” — citing eases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the settled doctrine of this court that the legislature may prescribe a limitation for the bringing of suits where none previously existed, as well as shorten the time within which suits to enforce existing causes of action may be commenced, provided, in each-case,.a reasonable time, taking all the circumstances into consideration, be given by the new law for the commencement of suit before the bar takes effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within six months after the passage of this act,”
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.