Goldsmith v. Learjet, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2012
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Sun Oil Company v. Wortman · Foster v. California · Beck v. Kansas Adult Authority · Rodman v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Knieriemen v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the cause of action has arisen in another state or country and by the laws of the state or country where the cause of action arose an action cannot be maintained thereon by reason of lapse of time, no action can be maintained thereon in this state except in favor of one who is a resident of this state and who has held the cause of action from the time it accrued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I. Whether the Kansas borrowing statute, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-516 , borrows the foreign state’s saving statute so as to preempt the Kansas saving statute. II. Whether the Kansas saving statute, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-518 , saves wrongful death actions. III. Whether the Kansas saving statute saves actions that the Kansas borrowing statute otherwise would bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If any action be commenced within due time, and the plaintiff fail in such action otherwise than upon the merits, and the time limited for the same shall have expired, the plaintiff, or, if the plaintiff die, and the cause of action survive, his or her representatives may commence a new action within six (6) months after such failure.””
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.