Koe v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Salvas v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2008), Passatempo v. McMenimen (2012)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 29 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 Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Wood v. Carpenter · Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Riley v. Presnell · Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he general rule for tort actions is that an action accrues when the plaintiff is injured. . . . This court has developed a discovery rule to determine when the statute of limitations begins to run in circumstances where the plaintiff did not know or could not reasonably have known that he or she may have been harmed by the conduct of another. . . . Under this discovery rule, the statute of limitations starts when the plaintiff [1] discovers, or [2] reasonably should have discovered, ‘that [he] has been harmed or may have been harmed by the defendant’s conduct.’ ” (Citations omitted.)”
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.