Lilly v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Land v. Land (1931), Doe v. Golden & Walters, PLLC (2005)
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 Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Davis v. Mills · Phillips Company v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Company · Douglass v. County of Pike · Rodman v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bringing of the action within the limited time is a condition to the exercise of the right, and, if the condition is not complied with, there is neither right nor remedy.””
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.