McKneely v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably Wilson v. General Electric Capital Auto Lease, Inc. (1992), O'MARA v. Dykema (1997)
37 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 Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Rosenthal v. Walker · Kilbourn v. Sunderland · Kirby v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad · National Bank v. County of Yankton
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[n]o mere ignorance on the part of plaintiff of his rights, nor the mere silence of one who is under no obligation to speak, will prevent the statute [of limitations] bar. There must be some positive act of fraud, something so furtively planned and secretly executed as to keep the plaintiff's cause of action concealed, or perpetrated in a way that it conceals itself.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.