Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge 1785 v. Cavaness’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Zapata v. Burns (1988), Klein v. Catalano (1982)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Reed v. Reed · Silver v. Silver · Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen · 66 Wis. 2d 382 - Kallas Millwork Corp. v. Square D 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actions for damages for injury to person or property or wrongful death caused by deficiency in design, planning, supervision of construction or construction of improvements to real property. 1. No action in tort, contract or otherwise shall be commenced against any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or the construction, of an improvement to real property more than 6 yeárs after the substantial completion of such an improvement, for the recovery of damages for: (a) Any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction or construction of such an improvement; or (b) Injury to real or personal property caused by any such deficiency; or (c) Injury to or wrongful death of a person caused by any such deficiency. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 11.190 and subsection 1 of this section, where injury occurs in the sixth year after substantial completion of such an improvement, an action for damages for injury to property or person, damages for wrongful death resulting from such injury or damages for breach of contract may be commenced within 1 year after the date of such injury, irrespective of the date of death, but in no event may an action be commenced more than 7 years after the substantial completion of the improvement. 3. Where an action for damages for wrongful death or injury to person or property caused by any deficiency in an improvement to real property is brought against a pe”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusive rights, privileges, or immunities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1 of this act, [12 O.S. § 109] in the case of such an injury to property or the person or such an injury causing wrongful death, which injury occurred during the fifth year after such substantial completion, an action in tort to recover damages for such an injury or wrongful death may be brought within two (2) years after the date on which such injury occurred (irrespective of the date of death) but in no event may such an action be brought more than seven (7) years after the substantial completion of construction of such an improvement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaworsky v. Frolich
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.