Mest’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Santiago v. Virgin Islands Housing Authority (2012), Ruder v. Pequea Valley School District (2011)
4 district ·
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 Chiarella v. United States · Pocono International Raceway, Inc. v. Pocono Produce, Inc. · PAPIEVES Et Ux. v. Kelly · 324 Pa. Super. 123 - Cathcart v. Keene Industrial Insulation · Fine v. Checcio
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the statute of limitations to run, a plaintiff need not know the exact nature of his injury, as long as it objectively appears that the plaintiff is reasonably charged with the knowledge that he has an injury caused by another.... Moreover, the plaintiff attempting to apply the discovery rule bears the burden of demonstrating that he exercised reasonable diligence in determining the existence and cause of his injury. To demonstrate reasonable diligence, a plaintiff must establish that he pursued the cause of his injury with those qualities of attention, knowledge, intelligence and judgment which society requires of its members for the protection of their own interests and the interests of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the doctriné of negligence per se, a violation of a statute may be grounds for finding that a defendant is per se liable: To assert a claim for negligence per se, the plaintiffs must demonstrate that: T) the statute or regulation clearly applies to the' conduct of the defendant; 2) the defendant violated the statute or regulation; 3) the violation of the statute proximately caused the plaintiffs injuries; and 4) the statute’s purpose is, at least in part, to protect the interest of the plaintiff individually, as opposed to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if a plaintiff suffers an injury, the statute of limitations does not begin to run until 'the plaintiff knows, or reasonably should know, (1) that he has been injured, and (2) that his injury has been caused by another party's conduct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.