Wilson v. Hinman’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 914 · 1949
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Hoffman v. Halden (1959), Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr. (1962)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 O'Sullivan v. Felix · 77 F. Supp. 477 - Gordon v. Garrson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The time for filing an action under the Civil Rights Act is controlled by the applicable Kansas Statute of Limitations * * * Section 60-306, par. 3, Kansas G.S. 1935, provides that an ‘action for injury to the rights of another, not arising on contract,’ must be brought within two years. * * * ””
4 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.