Meyer v. Paschal’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Cockrell v. Hillerich & Bradsby Co. (2005), Commercial Credit Loans, Inc. v. Riddle (1999)
22 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Pennoyer v. Neff · Coombs v. Darling · Arrowood v. McMinn County · Browning Ex Rel. Estate of Browning v. Hartvigsen
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If when a cause of action shall accrue against any person he shall be out of the State, such action may be commenced within the terms in this chapter respectively limited after the return of such person into this State. And if, after such cause of action shall have accrued, such person shall depart from and reside out of this State or remain continuously absent therefrom for the space of one year or more, the time of his absence shall not be deemed or taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of such action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our holding is limited to situations similar to the instant case in which the name and location of the defendant is known to the plaintiff. The period of limitations may be tolled when that information is not known to the plaintiff. Whether the plaintiff had such knowledge could conceivably be a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tiralango v. Balfry“a person who by reason of nonresidence is beyond the jurisdiction and process of the court”); Fla. Stat. Ann. § 95.051 (l)(h) (stating that the tolling provisions”
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.