Colhoun v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Jones v. R. S. Jones & Associates, Inc. (1993), Combs II Cta II v. International Insurance Company (2004)
5 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 Bodne v. Austin · Doyle v. City of Coral Gables · Peters v. E. O. Painter Fertilizer Co. · 118 So. 2d 563 - Castorri v. Milbrand · 178 So. 2d 592 - Butts v. County of Dade
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the cause of action arose in another state or territory of the United States, or in a foreign country, and its laws forbid the maintenance of the action because of lapse of time, no action shall be maintained in this state.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“last act necessary to establish liability”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ctions for libel, for injuries to the person, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, criminal conversation, seduction, breach of marriage promise, and statutory penalties, [shall be brought] within one year after [the] cause of action accruefs].”
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.