Chavez v. Kitsch’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Roberts v. Southwest Community Health Services (1992), Wilson v. Denver (1998)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 Emich Motors Corporation and U. S. Acceptance Corporation v. General Motors Corporation and General Motors Acceptance Corporation · Roe v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Kilkenny v. Kenney · Ziegler v. Akin · Wyoming Construction Co. v. Western Casualty & Surety Co.
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.
“The majority rule is well established, that where the action in its effect is one for the recovery of damages for personal injury, the statute of limitations for injuries to the person applies, even though the cause of action stated is ex contractu in its nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mantz v. Follingstad
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.