Smith v. Tyson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Cartwright v. Chrysler Corporation (1970), Cartwright v. Chrysler Corp. (1970)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Wood v. Carpenter · Case of Broderick's Will · United States v. Oregon Lumber Co. · Hyman v. Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. · Tillery v. Fuller
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor can the mere passivity of the defendants in this case arrest the course of prescription, in the total absence of allegation or proof of machinations upon their part lulling plaintiff into a false security.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Statutes of limitation are founded on public policy and are favored in the law. Mere ignorance of one’s rights will not toll the statute of limitations. Concealment by defendant only by silence is not enough. He must be guilty of some trick or contrivance tending to exclude suspicion and prevent inquiry. There must be reasonable diligence on the part of plaintiff and the means of knowledge are the same in effect as knowledge itself. . . . ” (Emphasis theirs) [ 192 So. 61, 63 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * Under the law of Louisiana prescription does not run against one who is ignorant of his rights, provided the party pleading it has been guilty of fraud that contributes to the want of knowledge on the part of plaintiff. Hyman v. Hibernia Bank & Trust Co., 139 La. 411 , 71 So. 598 . . . . ” [ 192 So. 61, 63 ]”
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.