Pulliam v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2013
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Laird v. Nationwide Insurance · Johnson v. Baldwin · Federal Land Bank of Cola. v. Garrison · Crawford v. Crawford · Warren, Wallace & Co. v. Jones
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the loss occurred and the action was instituted after the effective date of the statute is not, however, conclusive of the issue here. Assuming that the amendment was remedial in character and intended to apply to a cause of action which arose after its enactment, ... it could not operate to destroy vested rights or the obligation of contracts which had accrued prior to its adoption. “While it is generally held that there is no vested right in any particular mode of procedure or remedy, 16 Am.Jur.(2d), Constitutional Law, Section 427, a statute which is only remedial in character cannot operate to disturb vested rights or impair the obligation of contracts protected by the contract provisions of the Constitution, Johnson v. Baldwin, supra, 214 S.C. 545 , 53 S.E.2d 785 . Therefore, the effect of the statute, even if remedial, upon the right of the plaintiff to maintain the present action must be determined by its operation upon the rights and obligations which had accrued to plaintiff under the'contract of insurance previously issued.” 142 S.E.2d at 863 .”
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.