Riley v. Presnell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 86 district · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 329 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (1997), Linkage Corp. v. Trustees of Boston University (1997)
37 federal appellate · 86 district · 187 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 Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Lopez v. Swyer · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer · Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Attorney General v. Bailey
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 329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reasonable person who serves as the standard in this evaluation, however, is not a detached, outside observer assessing the situation without being affected by it. Rather, it is a reasonable person who has been subjected to the conduct which forms the basis for the plaintiffs complaint.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he question when a plaintiff knew or should have known of his cause of action is one of fact which in most instances will be decided by the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] cause of action will accrue when the plaintiff actually knows of the cause of action or when the plaintiff should have known of the cause of action.”
2 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.