Gowin v. Altmiller’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 820 · 1981
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989), Gibson v. United States (1986)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Nial Ruth Cox v. A. M. Stanton, M.D. · Briley v. California · 69 Cal. 2d 461 - Templeton Feed & Grain v. Ralston Purina Co. · Clark v. Musick · Strung v. Anderson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While there seem to be no Idaho cases dealing with the issue, authority from other states is apparently unanimous that such a statutory provision does not toll limitations for causes of action already in existence when the imprisonment began.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Idaho Supreme Court has consistently applied [the four-year statute of limitations] to malicious prosecution actions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n action upon a liability created by statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Venegas v. Wagner
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.