39 Cal. 3d 892 - Gutierrez v. Mofid’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1988), 21 Cal. 4th 383 - Norgart v. Upjohn Co. (1999)
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 172 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 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 14 Cal. 3d 502 - Davies v. Krasna · 18 Cal. 3d 93 - Sanchez v. South Hoover Hospital · 20 Cal. 3d 353 - Wood v. Elling Corp. · People v. Hallner
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are designed to promote justice by preventing surprises through the revival of claims that have been allowed to slumber until evidence has been lost, memories have faded, and witnesses have disappeared. The theory is that even if one has a just claim it is unjust not to put the adversary on notice to defend within the period of limitation and that the right to be free of stale claims in time comes to prevail over the right to prosecute them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“discover[ed], or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, [his] injury.”
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.