Donald Ruff’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Wilson v. Garcia · Spencer v. Kemna · Sevier v. Turner
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff has reason to know of his injury when he should have discovered it through the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
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.