Galvan v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 281 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2015
15 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. Welden · Mays v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Berkeley v. West Indies Enterprises, Inc. · Waterman Steamship Corp. v. Rodriguez · Tavernier v. Weyerhaeuser Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If any person entitled to bring an action mentioned in this chapter is, at the time the cause of action accrues— (1) under the age of twenty-one years ... the time of such disability shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action, but the period within which the action shall be brought shall not be extended in any case longer than two years after such disability ceases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhymer v. Rhymer“All persons are deemed to arrive at the age of majority at the age of 18 years, and thereafter shall have control of their own actions and businesses and have all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities of persons of full age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhymer v. Rhymer“involves a controlling question of law ... and that an immediate appeal ... may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.”
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.