Phinney v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Dalrymple v. Brown (1997), Ng Bros. Construction, Inc. v. Cranney (2002)
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 42 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 Riley v. Presnell · Hendrickson v. Sears · Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Franklin v. Albert · Friedman v. Jablonski
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actions for assault and battery alleging the defendant sexually abused a minor shall be commenced within three years of the acts alleged to have caused an injury or condition or within three years of the time the victim discovered or reasonably should have discovered that an emotional or psychological injury or condition was caused by said act, whichever period expires later; provided, however, that the time limit for commencement of an action under this section is tolled for a child until the child reaches eighteen years of age.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]hose factors are an unawareness [on the part of the plaintiff] that the defendant committed a wrongful act at the time of its commission; the plaintiffs trust in the defendant; the defendant’s control over- the facts giving rise to the plaintiffs cause of action; and the necessity of a triggering event which makes the plaintiff aware of the defendant’s potential liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may not have been aware of the full extent of their psychological damage” until later in life, the evidence was sufficient to establish that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.