Vachon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
3 federal appellate · 8 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. § 2401 · 45 U.S.C. § 56 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Urie v. Thompson · Burd v. New Jersey Telephone Company · Chrischilles v. Griswold · Johnson v. Caldwell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[K]nowledge of the facts and knowledge that they are actionable are distinct and unrelated issues for the purposes of the discovery rule.... There is no suggestion in any of the leading cases in this area that accrual of the cause of action is postponed until plaintiff learns or should learn the state of the law positing a right of recovery upon the facts already known to or reasonably knowable by the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The information they possessed on the date of the accident was plainly sufficient to put them on inquiry notice concerning possible defects in the wagon. They did not investigate at that time. When they later investigated, they found the alleged defects they now rely on.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every claim and suit permitted under this chapter shall be forever barred, unless within two years after such claim accrued, the claim is made in writing to the state appeal board under this chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nixon v. State
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.