Columbus Mining Co. v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1984
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Urie v. Thompson · Schmidt v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. · Cook v. John N. Norton Memorial Infirmary · Menefee v. Alexander · Wood v. Downing's Admr.
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.
““. . . since the basis of the action is the employer’s wrongful conduct in not maintaining a safe place of employment, the commencement of the running of the statute should not be delayed beyond the date upon which the employee was last exposed. To hold otherwise would promote the prosecution of stale claims against the intent and spirit of statutes of limitations.” Id. at 278 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘ * * * it is generally held that where a statúte limits the time in which an action for “injuries to the person” may be brought, the statute is applicable to all actions the real purpose of which is to recover for an injury to the person, whether based upon contract or tort, in preference to a general statute limiting the time for bringing actions ex contractu.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An action against a physician or surgeon for negligence or malpractice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Furnell
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.