Devine v. Rook’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Combs II Cta II v. International Insurance Company (2004), Duke v. Housen (1979)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 New York Co v. Estill · Wojtylak v. Kansas & Texas Coal Co. · 138 Ohio St. 30 - Alropa Corp. v. Kirchwehm · 228 Mo. App. 220 - Christner v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Gibson v. Simmons
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of the borrowing statute is not to extend the procedural law of one state into another, but the borrowing state adopts and makes as its own (special statute of limitations) the statute of the other. But when such statute is so borrowed, it is not wrenched bodily out of its own setting, but taken along with it are the court decisions of its own state which interpret and apply it, and the companion statutes which limit and restrict its operation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is fundamental that the law of the place where the cause of action first came to life controls the substantive law of the cause, since the cause owes its existence, and the character of its existence, to that place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The following actions shall be brought within two years: (2) an action for taking, detaining or injuring personal property, including actions for the specific recovery thereof. (4) an action for injury to the rights of another, not arising on contract, and not herein enumerated. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the causes of action listed in subsection (a) shall not be deemed to have accrued until the act giving rise to the cause of action first causes substantial injury, or, if the fact of injury is not reasonably ascertainable until some time after the initial act, then the period of limitations shall not commence until the fact of injury becomes reasonably ascertainable to the injured party, but in no event shall an action be commenced more than ten years beyond the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action.”
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.