Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 72 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (1997), Riley v. Presnell (1991)
33 federal appellate · 72 district · 120 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 Hendrickson v. Sears · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc. · Franklin v. Albert · Friedman v. Jablonski · Hoffman v. Howmedica, Inc.
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a plaintiff discovers, or any earlier date when she should reasonably have discovered, that she has been harmed or may have been harmed by the defendant's conduct.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The important point is that the statute of limitations starts to run when an event or events have occurred that were reasonably likely to put the plaintiff on notice that someone may have caused her injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he plaintiff need not know the full extent of the injury before the statute starts to run,”
4 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.