Stone v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2019
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Galloway v. City of Winchester · Lawrence v. City of Louisville · Treitz v. City of Louisville · Barnes v. Louisville N. R. 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is no vested right in the running of the statute of limitations unless it has completely run and barred the action, so that as to existing causes of action which are not barred, the statute may be amended, suspended or repealed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]uch enactments prescribing limitations on time relate only to remedy and may be enlarged or restricted as the legislature so desires”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cassidy v. Adams
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.