Farris v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Dalrymple v. Brown (1997)
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 28 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 Conley v. Gibson · United States v. Kubrick · Urie v. Thompson · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no man may take advantage of his own wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“claim does not accrue until the plaintiff, exercising due diligence, has discovered or reasonably should have discovered all of the essential elements of her possible cause of action[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The present case might profitably be compared with a hypothetical one. Suppose that the defendant threw acid in a plaintiffs face and blinded her. As a result of her blindness, which was caused by the defendant, the plaintiff has become disabled from making an identification, and no other evidence is available. Twenty-five years later, however, a new procedure restores the plaintiffs 20:20 eyesight. She identifies the defendant as her assailant from a photograph taken of the defendant on the day of.the assault. To apply the statute of limitations against the plaintiff in such a case to defeat recovery would surely be intolerable, for to do so would permit the assailant to profit from his own wrong.”
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.