Morton v. Tullgren’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Trinity Broadcasting Corp. v. Leeco Oil Co. (1984), Johnson v. Lilly (1992)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Blocher v. Harlow · Wilson v. New Mexico Lumber & Timber Co. · McCrater v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. · Steele v. Gann · Dean v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o one has any vested right in a statute of limitations until the bar of the statute has become effective. It is also true that the General Assembly may validly enlarge the period of limitations and make the new statute, rather than the old, apply to any cause of action which has not been barred at the time the new statute becomes effective.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. Carter · Branch v. Carter“The rationale of our holdings that a statute extending the period of limitations is applicable only to causes of action arising after the act becomes effective, unless expressly made retroactive, is not based upon any vested right in the statute of limitations. It is based upon the strong presumption that a legislative act is not intended to operate retroactively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. Carter
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.