Prashar v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
480 F.2d 947 · 1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1990
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that it is only when a state-legislates a rule regarding the commencement of action as an integral part of the statute of limitations that a state policy making a mode of enforcing a state-created right intrinsically material to the right involved becomes clearly discernible and substantial. It is only then that Erie principles as set forth -in Ragan-must govern the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendants have not pointed to, nor have we found, any state policy expressed in South Dakota similar to that found by the court . . . in . . Ragan . . . where the Kansas statute of limitations was construed to be integrated with the rule relating to commencement of actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this Court has never before been confronted with a case where the applicable Federal Rule is in direct collision with the law of the relevant State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.