Lumsden v. Design Tech Builders, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
18 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Dual v. Lockheed Martin Corporation (2004), Piselli v. 75th Street Medical (2002)
18 district · 27 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 Shieh v. State Bar · CMC Heartland Partners v. Union Pacific Railroad · Poffenberger v. Risser · Moreno v. Sterling Drug, Inc. · Schaffer v. Larzelere
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plaintiff's cause of action accrues when the plaintiff knows or reasonably should have known of the wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“were enacted in an effort to balance the competing interests of potential plaintiffs, potential defendants, and the public. The statutory period provided by a statute of limitations represents a compromise of these interests and "reflects a policy decision regarding what constitutes an adequate period of time for a person of ordinary diligence to pursue his claim.” By creating a limitations period, the legislature determined that a plaintiff should have only so long to bring his action before he is deemed to have waived his right to sue and to have acquiesced in the defendant’s wrongdoing. Limitations statutes therefore are designed to (1) provide adequate time for diligent plaintiffs to file suit, (2) grant repose to defendants when plaintiffs have tarried for an unreasonable period of time, and (3) serve society by promoting judicial economy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A cause of action accrues only when the claimant knows or should know of the wrong.... A claimant reasonably should know of a wrong if the claimant has “knowledge of circumstances which ought to have put a person of ordinary prudence on inquiry [thus, charging the individual] with notice of all facts which such an investigation would in all probability have disclosed if it had been properly pursued.” [T]he clock for a statute of limitations begins to run when a claimant gains knowledge sufficient to put him on inquiry notice. From that date forward, claimant will be charged with knowledge of facts that would have been disclosed by a . reasonably diligent investigation. The commencement of the statute of limitations is not delayed until the conclusion of that diligent investigation.”
2 later decisions 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.