Collier v. Goessling’s Empirical Analysis
160 F. 604 · 1908
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1991
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 United States v. Lee · Poindexter v. Greenhow · Fitts v. McGhee · Stanley v. Schwalby · Marx v. Hanthorn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To start the running of a statute of limitation there must be some one capable of suing, some one subject to be sued, and a tribunal open for such suits.””
2 later decisions 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.