Brett v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thiele v. Stich · Fabio v. Bellomo · Schoepke v. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. · Smith v. Hubbard · Smith v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e view the language as simply a legislative pronouncement that personal injury caused by sexual abuse, as opposed to personal injury caused by any other activity, is entitled to a different limitation period because of its uniqueness and because of the difficulties attendant on the victim’s often repressed recollections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lickteig v. Kolar
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.