Willard v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Rich v. Flanders (1859), Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City (1993)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Dash v. Van Kleeck · Call v. Hagger · Paschall v. Whitsett · Commonwealth v. Cole · Rockwell v. Hubbell's Administrators
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.
““[Statutes of limitation may be changed at the pleasure of the legislative power, either by enlarging or restricting the period within which suits may be brought; and it is wholly immaterial whether the time of limitation has already expired in part or not, provided a sufficient time remains before any claim in question becomes barred, to enable the claimant by the use of reasonable diligence to save his claim by a suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Patten“Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive, and unjust. No such laws, therefore, should be made, either for the decision of civil causes, or the punishment of offences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The courts, therefore, have everywhere recognized a distinction between statutes affecting rights, and those affecting remedies only.”
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.