Aube v. O'BRIEN’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Cavanaugh v. Abbott Laboratories (1985), Bevins v. King (1986)
10 district · 22 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 Lomberg v. Crowley · Glabach v. Sardelli · Kinney v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · South Burlington School District v. Goodrich · Merrill v. Reville
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person entitled to bring a personal action is prevented from so doing by the fraudulent concealment of the cause of such action by the person against whom it lies, the period prior to the discovery of such cause of action shall be excluded in determining the time limited for the commencement thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actions for the following causes shall be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrues, and not after: (4) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, injuries to the person suffered by the act or default of another person, provided that the cause of action shall be deemed to accrue as of the date of the discovery of the injury----”
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.