Sanborn v. Greenwald’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Giulietti v. Giulietti (2001), Rosato v. Mascardo (2004)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 167 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 Dubay v. Irish · Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners · Bartha v. Waterbury House Wrecking Co. · Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. · Fichera v. Mine Hill Corp.
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o support a finding of a continuing course of conduct that may toll the statute of limitations there must be evidence of the breach of a duty that remained in existence after commission of the original wrong related thereto. That duty must not have terminated prior to commencement of the period allowed for bringing an action for such a wrong. . . Where [our Supreme Court has] upheld a finding that a duty continued to exist after the cessation of the act or omission relied upon, there has been evidence of either a special relationship between the parties giving rise to such a continuing duty or some later wrongful conduct of a defendant related to the prior act.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he [continuing course of conduct] doctrine is generally applicable under circumstances where `it may be impossible to pinpoint the exact date of a particular negligent act or omission that caused injury' or where the negligence consists of a series of acts or omissions and it is `appropriate to allow the course of action to terminate before allowing the repose section of the statute of limitations to run.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“The doctrine of continuing course of conduct as used to toll a statute of limitations is better suited to claims where the situation keeps evolving after the act complained of is complete, such as medical malpractice, rather than one where the situation cannot change, such as legal malpractice arising from negligent drafting of the written word.”
7 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.