Lembert v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1992
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 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 Layton v. Allen · Mastellone v. Argo Oil Corp. · Patterson v. Vincent · Nardo v. Guido DeAscanis & Sons, Inc. · Kojro v. Sikorski
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no action to recover damages caused by an injury unaccompanied with force or resulting indirectly from the act of de fendant shall be brought after the expiration of 3 years from the accruing of the cause of such action; subject, however to the provisions of §§ 8108-8110, 8119 and 8127 of this title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We expressly limit this holding to such case; we do not intend any broad relaxation of the rule of ignorance as exemplified by Mastellone; we hold only that § 8118, as herein construed, bars the application of that rule in a case of this kind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the basic rule that, in general, the statute of limitations begins to run from the date of the injury caused by the defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.