Guiterman v. Wishon’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Bleecker v. Miller (1914), Morrison v. Farmers & Traders' State Bank (1924)
2 district · 26 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 Campbell v. Holt · Terry v. Anderson · Price v. Hopkin · People ex rel. Parsons v. Circuit Judge · Mowry v. Wood
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The former statute having commenced to run, the new law diminished the time, and, if the legislature has not directly specified what is a reasonable time to be allowed in which to bring suit, it devolves upon the court to apply the law so as not to deprive one of a reasonable time to sue on his demand, and to require that action be commenced within such reasonable time, or be barred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitcraft v. Semenza
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.