Harrison v. Holsenbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 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 Stephens v. Walker · Thompson v. Thompson · Anderson v. Goodwin · Worthy v. Johnson · Hadaway v. Hadaway
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes of limitation are considered as beneficial and resting on principles of a sound public policy, and as not to be evaded except by the methods provided therein. . . . And courts cannot engraft on such statutes exceptions not contained therein, however inequitable the enforcement of the statute, without such exceptions, may be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In view of the allegation that the grantor, at the time of the execution of the deeds involved, was mentally incapable of making the deeds due to her mental capacity and remained so until her death, no limitation would run during her lifetime . . .”). In Royal Indem. Co. v. Agnew, 66 Ga. App. 377 ( 18 SE2d 57 ) (1941), a workers’compensation case, we treated as substantially similar the terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[l]imitation statutes run against estates, but when estates are unrepresented, such statutes are tolled between the death of a person and the appointment of a representative ... for a period of five years provided representation is taken within that period of time.”
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.