Dunn v. Felt’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2009
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen · Layton v. Allen · Owen v. Wilson · Laughlin v. Forgrave
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he General Assembly has the power to create new rights and abolish old ones as long as they are not vested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““§ 6856. General Limitations. “No action for the recovery of damages upon a claim against a health care provider for personal injury, including personal injury which results in death, arising out of malpractice shall be brought after the expiration of 2 years from the date upon which such injury occurred; provided, however, that: “(1) Solely in the event of personal injury the occurrence of which, during such period of 2 years, was unknown to and could not in the exercise of reasonable diligence have been discovered by the injured person, such action may be brought prior to the expiration of S years from the date upon which such injury occurred, and not thereafter; . ” (emphasis supplied)”
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.