Hunter v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Dincher v. Marlin Firearms Co. (1952), Clark Estate Co. v. Gentry (1951)
9 federal appellate · 46 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 Shelby County v. Bragg · Armor v. Frey · Coleman v. Kansas City · Woodruff v. Shores · Hyde v. Nelson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes of limitation are favored in the law, and cannot be avoided unless the party seeking to do so brings himself strictly within some exception,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A cause of action accrues, and limitations thereon begin to run, when the right to sue arises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are matters of public policy for determination by the General Assembly,”
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.