Kirwan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Beckenstein v. Potter & Carrier, Inc. (1983), Ridgeway v. Ridgeway (1980)
2 district · 34 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 Faubion v. Juras · Kennedy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corporation · McNish v. American Brass Co. · McNish v. American Brass Co. · Rosenblatt v. Berman
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.
“[i]f the plaintiff were legally incompetent to sue or his access to the courts were impaired, the statute could not commence the limitations period running until he regained his legal competency. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may work hardship, it is not the function of this court to pass upon the merit of legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"absent an allegation which must later be proved, that an insane person was or should have been adjudicated incompetent [citation omitted] or that he was prevented from pursuing his remedies by the tortious or illegal acts of the Institute, the complaint raises no. issue as to the suspension of the operation of the statute of limitations. It being presumed that the plaintiff was competent and capable of pursuing his case in the courts [citations omitted]." Kerwin at 503. CT Page 12324”
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.