Bailey v. Greenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 3 F. Supp. 2d 1473 - Smith v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (1998), East v. Graphic Arts Industry Joint Pension Trust (1998)
21 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 Urie v. Thompson · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Hounshell v. American States Insurance · Holland v. Hannan · Wilson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the lulling doctrine, a defendant cannot assert the bar of the statute of limitations, if it appears the defendant has done anything that would tend to lull the plaintiff into inaction, and thereby permit the limitation prescribed by the statute to run.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]xpiration of the statute of limitations is a question of law, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“affirmative inducement to plaintiff[ ] to delay bringing action.”
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.