Doran v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 440 · 1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2000
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Robinson v. Weaver · State v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · Coastal Industrial Water Authority v. Trinity Portland Cement Division, General Portland Cement Co. · Texas Water Rights Commission v. Wright · Hill v. Forrest & Cotton, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There shall be commenced and prosecuted within two years after the cause of action shall have accrued, and not afterward, all actions or suits in court of the following description: * * * * * * 6. Action for injury done to the person of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldridge v. Howard“although the legislature can enact a statute of limitations designed to apply retroactively, a statute of limitations will apply to a preexisting cause of action only if it was intended to apply retroactively....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.