Dougherty v. Norlin’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2007
2 district · 18 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 Regier v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. · Douglass v. Loftus · Smith v. McCarthy · Adams v. Coon · Shelby v. Shaner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff further urges the statute of limitations could not begin to run until she discovered who had found the bond. The statute makes no exception as to ‘discovery,’ except in cases of fraud. We are not permitted to read other exceptions into it, and the fact a party does not know he has a cause of action does not prevent the running of the statute of limitations. (Regier v. Amerada Petroleum Corp., 139 Kan. 177, 183 , 30 P. 2d 136 .)” “Appellant cites tire early case of Daniel v. McLucas, 8 Kan. App., 299 , to the effect that discovery of lost or stolen property and a demand on an innocent holder for possession are necessary to start the running of the statute. That was an action for the recovery of the lost or stolen property. It was not an action in which the tort was waived and recovery of the proceeds of the sale was sought on the theory of an implied contract. It is also well to note the opinion took no notice whatsoever of the fact that in an action for the recovery of property taken or detained, the statute made no exception to the effect that the cause of action did not accrue until the discovery of its location. (G. S. 1935, 60-306, Third.) Under the allegations of the petition appellant’s ignorance of the location of the bond was not due to conduct of the appellee. No fraud or even concealment of the location of the bond having been pleaded in the instant case, the cause of action accrued upon the date of the conversion of the bond and not from the date of the ”
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.