Ellis v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
274 F. 443 · 1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1979
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. Harriman Brothers · Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance · Texas Ry Co v. Leatherwood · Melson v. Phenix Insurance · Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad v. Anchors
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suits for loss, damage, or" delay shall be instituted only within two years and one day after delivery of the property, or in case of failure to make delivery then within two years and one day after a reasonable time for delivery has elapsed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The exception of the Georgia statute of limitations is not imported as an exception into the absolute stipulation of a contract. It has been so ruled repeatedly by the Supreme Court of Georgia; * * * [citations].”
1 later decision 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.