Hackworth v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Jackson v. Bumgardner (1986), Lashlee v. Sumner (1978)
14 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Tomlinson v. Siehl · Adams v. Ison · Jones v. Furnell · Linke v. Sorenson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statute begins to run on the date of discovery of the injury, or from the date it should, in the exercise of ordinary care and diligence, have been discovered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, unless the conduct of the defendant amounts to an absconding or concealment or obstructs the prosecution of the action, it will not toll the running of the Statute of Limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lashlee v. Sumner“cause of action commenced to run at the time he (the husband) discovered or should have discovered that the operation was not successful.”
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.