Cummins Engine v. Invictus Motor Freight’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 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 Aspinwall v. Gowens · 395 So. 2d 21 - McClendon v. City of Boaz · Wilson & Co. v. Sims · 55 Ala. App. 525 - Winston Industries, Inc. v. Stuyvesant Ins. Co., Inc. · Georgia Cas. and Sur. Co. v. White
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An amendment of a pleading relates back to the date of the original pleading when ". . . . (2) the claim or defense asserted in the amended pleading arose out of the conduct, transaction, or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he relation-back doctrine of Rule 15(c) . . . is an objective standard and its application under the prescribed circumstances is nondiscretionary”
2 later decisions 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.