Decker v. Fox River Tractor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1990
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co. · 191 Pa. Super. 207 - Zoller v. Highland Country Club
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every suit hereafter brought to recover damages for injury wrongfully done to the person, ... must be brought within two years from the time when the injury was done and not afterwards....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dahlberg v. Harris“Therefore the question to be resolved is when, under Pennsylvania law, the action is deemed to be brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dahlberg v. Harris
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.