Rotella v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
212 federal appellate · 175 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,013 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan (2002), Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews (2001)
212 federal appellate · 175 district · 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRotella v. Wood (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Wilson v. Garcia · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · United States v. Kubrick · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
Cited together with Agency Holding Corporation v. Malley-Duff & Associates Inc Crown Life Insurance Company · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Klehr v. Ao Smith Corporation Ao · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc
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 1,013 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discovery of the injury, not discovery of the other elements of a claim, is what starts the clock.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“repose, elimination of stale claims, and certainty about a plaintiff's opportunity for recovery and a defendant's potential liabilities”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By tying the start of the limitations period to a plaintiff's reasonable discovery of a pattern rather than to the point of injury or its reasonable discovery, the rule would extend the potential limitations period for most civil RICO cases well beyond the time when a plaintiff's cause of action is complete....”
14 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.