Gregory v. Southern Pac. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
157 F. 113 · 1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1960
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 The Harrisburg · Dennick v. Railroad Co. · Northern Pacific Railroad v. Babcock · Munro v. Pacific Coast Dredging & Reclamation Co. · Hill v. Board of Supervisors
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the intendment be that the time allotted for bringing action shall operate as a condition to the right of pressing any suit, and as a restriction upon the very liability created, then the condition does not partake of a limitation statute in its ordinary acceptation. If, however, it was the purpose of the Legislature to give the right independent of any specific limitation as to when the action should be instituted, leaving that for regulation by the general statute upon the subject of the limitation of actions, then the time within which the action is required to be brought would pertain to and be referable to the remedy, and would be governed by the law of the forum.”
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.