Collins v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Goforth v. Franklin Life Insurance (1969), Wendler v. City of Great Bend (1957)
2 district · 30 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 Malone v. Young · Regier v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. · Bradley v. Hall · Muckenthaler v. Noller · Travis v. Glick
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 24 of the code of civil procedure, which declares that, ‘When a right of action is barred by the provisions of any statute, it shall be unavailable either as a cause of action or ground of defense,’ is construed to mean that a barred right of action cannot be used as a setoff, or counterclaim, or for the purpose of obtaining affirmative relief, but not to apply to matters of pure defense.” (Syl. 4.) (Our emphasis.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The following actions shall be brought within two (2) years: “(3) An action for relief on the ground of fraud, but the cause of action shall not be deemed to have accrued until the fraud is discovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The statute making barred demands unavailable as a cause of action or a ground of defense (G. S. 1935, 60-313) has no application to matters of pure defense.” (Syl. 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powers v. Sturgeon
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.