Day v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 14 Cal. 3d 502 - Davies v. Krasna (1975), Cox v. Summa Corp. (1985)
7 federal appellate · 117 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 Monarco v. Lo Greco · 53 Cal. 2d 195 - Leeper v. Beltrami · 57 Cal. 2d 508 - Souza & McCue Construction Co. v. Superior Court · Brison v. Brison · Bainbridge v. Stoner
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute of limitations to be applied is determined by the nature of the right sued upon, not by the form of the action or the relief demanded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taines · Witt v. Jones
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.