Poster Exchange, Inc. v. National Screen Service Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
517 F.2d 117 · 1975
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc. (1982), Bogard v. Cook (1978)
73 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the abatable but unabated inertial consequences of some pre-limitations action.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[wjhere the violation is final at its impact, for example, where the plaintiff’s business is immediately and permanently destroyed, or where an actionable wrong is by its nature permanent at initiation without further acts, then the acts causing damage are unrepeated, and suit must be brought within the limitations period and upon the initial act.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The function of the limitations statute is simply to pull the blanket of peace over acts and events which have themselves already slept for the statutory period, thus barring the proof of wrongs embedded in time-passed events.”
5 later decisions 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.