Rooney v. MacZko’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Fisher v. Hill (1951), Keystone Building Corp. v. Lincoln Savings and Loan Ass'n (1976)
30 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 United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · New York Cent Co v. Kinney · Davis v. Investment Land Co. · Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. Snyder · Commonwealth v. Green
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When a defendant has had notice from the beginning that the plaintiff sets up and is trying to enforce a claim against it because of specified conduct, the reasons for the statute of limitations do not exist, and we are of opinion that a liberal rule (allowing amendments to plaintiff’s statement) should be applied.’””
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.