3 Smith & H. 366 - Bodne v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Flanagan v. Mount Eden General Hospital (1969), Wyler v. Tripi (1971)
12 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have been referred to no authority holding that mere ignorance and failure to discover the existence of the cause of action, or the consequential damages resulting from the breach of duty or wrongful act, can prevent the running of the statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Teeters v. Currey
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.