Carruth v. Fritch’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 113 - Minsky v. City of Los Angeles (1974), 5 Cal. 3d 431 - Tresway Aero, Inc. v. Superior Court (1971)
6 federal appellate · 91 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 Seeger v. Odell · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 102 N.J. Eq. 517 - Howard v. West Jersey, C., R.R. Co. · Cal. Farm & Fruit Co. v. Schiappa-Pietra · Jordan v. Guerra
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`One cannot justly or equitably lull his adversary into a false sense of security, and thereby cause his adversary to subject his claim to the bar of the statute of limitations, and then be permitted to plead the very delay caused by his course of conduct as a defense to the action when brought.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Delta Energy Projects Nos. V-A & V-B, California Limited Partnerships Altawind Inc., a California Corporation Craig M. Hunt v. Sedgwick James of California, Corporation Incorporated Under the Laws of Both the State of California and the State of Illinois Fred S. James of Illinois, Delta Energy Projects Nos. Iii, IV and Vi: Roan Corporation Requip, Inc. Patrick J. Hodges v. Sedgwick James of California, Fred S. James of Illinois, Corportations Incorporated Under the Laws of Both the State of California and the State of Illinois · 5 Cal. 3d 431 - Tresway Aero, Inc. v. Superior Court
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.