Walk v. Ring’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Pearl v. City of Long Beach (2002), Dawson v. Withycombe (2007)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 49 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 United States v. Kubrick · 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Orme School v. Reeves · Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. · Augustine v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as provided in § 12-551 [the statute of limitations regarding product liability] there shall be commenced and prosecuted within two years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward, the following actions: 1. For injuries done to the person of another____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]eterminations of the time when discovery occurs and a cause of action accrues 'are usually and necessarily questions of fact for the jury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable person would be on notice to investigate whether the injury might result from fault.”
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.