Weast v. Duffie’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2019
1 district · 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 Tews v. C. F. Hanks Coal Co.
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.
““If any person who is liable to any of the actions mentioned in this chapter, shall fraudulently conceal the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the action may be commenced at any time within 2 years after the person who is entitled to bring the same shall discover that he had such cause of action, although such action would be -otherwise barred by the provisions of this chapter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kroll v. Vanden Berg““It is not necessary that a party should know the details of the evidence by which to establish his cause of action. It is enough that he knows that a cause ■of action exists in his favor, and when he has this knowledge, it is his own fault if he does not avail himself of those means which the law provides for prosecuting or preserving his claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kroll v. Vanden Berg
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.