Goldman v. Bequai’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 666 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Firestone v. K Firestone, Smith-Haynie v. District of Columbia (1998)
15 federal appellate · 18 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Idaho ex rel. Evans v. Oregon · Riddell v. Riddell Washington Corp. · Knight v. Furlow
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“case] ... if there is a genuine issue of material fact as to when, through the exercise of due diligence, the plaintiff knew or should have known of her injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the plaintiff has knowledge of (or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have knowledge of) (1) the existence of the injury, (2) its cause in fact, and (3) some evidence of wrongdoing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“what a plaintiff knew and when she knew it, in the context of a statute of limitations defense, are questions for the jury.”
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.