West v. John Morrell & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2023
2 district · 12 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 Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division · Pinkston v. Rice Motor Co. · Wilson v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Corbett v. General Engineering & MacHinery Co. · 142 Pa. Super. 470 - Seneca v. Yale & Towne Mfg. 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tatutes of limitation remain remedial even though their application may be dispositive of the outcome in a given case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koenig v. Lambert
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.