Harrison v. Woyahn’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.2d 412 · 1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1993
3 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 24a mentions only ‘a new action’ not multiple new actions and significantly reads in terms of relief following in the wake of an initial action. Clearly §15 S.H.A. ch. 83 and §24a must be read against the backdrop of §13 S.H.A. ch. 83 which runs, in part pertinent, ‘The following actions can only be commenced within the periods hereinafter prescribed ...’ The balance of §13 covers §24a situations, but we find nothing in this statutory language authorizing repeated commencement of lawsuits such as at bar. Rather than simply liberal construction of remedial statutes, plaintiff’s thesis would have us legislate authority for interminable pendency of lawsuits — from non-suits to refiling in endless monotonous cycles — all within tidy yearly units of time.””
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.