372 So. 2d 560 - Nathan v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 375 So. 2d 1319 - Corsey v. State, Through Dept. of Corrections (1979), Plaquemines Par. Com'n Council v. Delta Dev. Co. (1987)
4 federal appellate · 33 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 Cartwright v. Chrysler Corporation · Hyman v. Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. · Ayres v. New York Life Ins. Co. · 281 So. 2d 724 - Pearson v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company · Smith v. Tyson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This equitable doctrine has been applied to cases wherein defendant has concealed the fact of the offense or has committed acts (including concealment, fraud, misrepresentation, or other `ill practices') which tend to hinder, impede, or prevent the plaintiff from asserting his cause of action, as long as plaintiff's delay of his own negligence.... [T]he doctrine of contra non valentem is, in part, but an application of the long-established principle of law that one should not be able to take advantage of his own wrongful act :" [Authorities omitted. Emphasis added.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“acts of fraud and misrepresentation ... designed to hinder, impede or prevent plaintiffs from asserting their cause of action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendants threatened Mrs. Nathan with termination of her compensation benefits if she ever contacted an attorney.”
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.