Mencher v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1983
2 federal appellate ·
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 Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · Potter v. Walker · McCrea v. . Robertson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the following actions must be commenced within three years after the cause of action has accrued : . ... (4) An action against a director or stockholder of a moneyed corporation, or banking association ... to enforce a liability created by the common law or by statute. The cause of action is not deemed to have accrued until the discovery by the plaintiff of the facts under which . . . the liability was created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Todd
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.