Lemmerman v. Fealk’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Dalrymple v. Brown (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adoption of the plaintiffs’ position would leave a determination of the onset of a limitation period an open question within the subjective control of the plaintiff. Placing a plaintiff in this discretionary position to allege the onset of the disability of repressed memory and the termination of that condition within an applicable grace period would ‘vitiate the statute of limitations as a defense’ and is a circumstance we have rejected in the past.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a mental derangement such as to prevent the sufferer from comprehending rights he or she is otherwise bound to know.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some indicia of assurance of reliable fact finding,”
1 later decision 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.