Owens v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2018
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Laburnum Construction Corp. · Hawks v. DeHart · Street v. Consumers Mining Corp. · Dincher v. Marlin Firearms Co. · Winston v. Gordon
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.
“[The Virginia Supreme Court] court, from early times, has adhered to the general rule ... that the limitation begins to run from the moment the cause of action accrues and not from the time it is ascertained that damage has been sustained. ... The difficulty in ascertaining the fact that a cause of action exists plays no part in the general rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that if an injury occurs, even though it be ever so slight and not capable of ascertainment at the time, the cause of action then accrues.”
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.