Reading Co. v. Koons’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 58 · 1926
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 24 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Crown Coat Front Co. v. United States (1967), Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. (1937)
89 federal appellate · 24 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Missouri Kansas Texas Pailway Company v. Sallie C Wulf · St Louis San Francisco Texas Railway Company v. Maude Seale · New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Kinney · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Renn
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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n)o action shall be maintained * * * unless commenced within three years from the day the cause of action accrued.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“interpreted in the light of the general purposes of the statute and of its other provisions, and with due regard to those practical ends which are to be served by any limitation of the time within which an action must be brought,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there may be, at some definitely ascertainable period, an end to litigation,”
5 later decisions 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.