Mabel Groninger v. Merrill E. Davison’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.2d 638 · 1966
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. (1980), Lindsey v. Dayton-Hudson Corp. (1979)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Foman v. Davis · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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.
“[w]hile it is difficult to reconcile Hanna v. Plumer . . . with the holding in Ragan, we nevertheless must conclude that the majority of the Supreme Court . . . felt that it was not an overruling of Ragan.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Actions may be brought within the times herein limited, respectively, after their causes accrue, and not afterwards, * * * “3. * * * Those founded on injuries to the person or reputation, including injuries to relative rights, whether based on contract or tort, or for a statute penalty, within two years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““For the purpose of determining whether an action has been commenced within the time allowed by statutes for limitation of actions, the filing of the original notice with the secretary of state shall be deemed a commencement of the action.””
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.