Duke v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably Hart v. Wimberly (1927), St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. State (1911)
25 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Sohn v. Waterson · Robert Parker and Miles White v. William Overman · Loring v. Palmer · Gibson v. Herriott
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A statute of limitations may undoubtedly have effect upon actions which have already accrued as well as upon actions which accrue after its passage.’ And it was there held that, in the absence of a contrary provision, the period of limitation fixed by the statute would be computed as to causes of action existing when it was passed, from the time when they are first subjected to its operation. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horn v. Horn
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.