30 Cal. 2d 463 - Mudd v. McColgan’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Douglas Aircraft Co. v. Cranston (1962), 54 Cal. 3d 288 - Nickelsberg v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (1991)
125 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 The Harrisburg · Campbell v. Holt · Davis v. Mills · Florsheim Bros. Drygoods Co. v. United States · Zellerbach Paper Co. v. Helvering
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the settled law of this state that an amendment which enlarges a period of limitation applies to pending matters where not otherwise expressly excepted. Such legislation affects the remedy and is applicable to matters not already barred, without retroactive effect. Because the operation is prospective rather than retrospective, there is no impairment of vested rights. Moreover a party has no vested right in the running of a statute of limitation prior to its expiration. He is deemed to suffer no injury if, at the time of an amendment extending the period of limitation for recovery, he is under obligation to pay.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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