Allen v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 418 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Guyton (1982), Lutz v. United States (1982)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Bishop v. Wood · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Ohio v. Kentucky · Bollinger v. National Fire Insurance · Gaines v. . City of New York
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The saving statute is designed to avoid the harsh forfeiture of plaintiffs rights where the plaintiff diligently and in good faith pursues an action only to have it dismissed on procedural grounds. Tietjen v. Heberlein, 54 Mont. 486 , 171 P. 928 (1918). If applicable, the saving provision tolls the statute of limitations, the principal aims of which are to prevent potential plaintiffs from neglecting suits, and to suppress stale and fraudulent claims after the facts concerning them have become obscured by a lapse of time and memory. Cassidy v. Finley, 173 Mont. 475 , 568 P.2d 142 (1977); Noll v. City of Bozeman, 166 Mont. 504 , 534 P.2d 880 (1975). In most instances, moreover, courts approach the question of tolling statutes of limitations in a liberal manner. See, e.g., Burnett v. New York Cent. R.R., 380 U.S. 424 , 85 S.Ct. 1050 (1965); Gaines v. City of New York, 215 N.Y. 533 , 109 N.E. 594 (1915) (Brandeis, J.). See also Clark v. Oregon Short Line R.R., 38 Mont. 177 , 99 P. 298 (1909).”
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.