Funnell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably White v. American Airlines, Inc. (1990), Fent v. Contingency Review Board (2007)
7 federal appellate · 39 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 Steiger v. Commerce Acceptance of Oklahoma City, Inc. · Bowen v. State · Kansas City Life Ins. Co. v. Nipper · McCarroll v. Doctors General Hospital · Seanor v. Browne
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'limitations period of 95(3) begins to run from the date the negligent act occurred or from the date the plaintiff should have known of the act complained of”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The fact that these lawsuits and their subsequent appeals were conducted pro se does not, in any way relieve Plaintiffs/Appellants of the responsibility to conform their actions to the rules of pleadings, evidence or appellate practice.... We . hold that a party proceeding pro se in a 01v11 action or a civil appeal is to be held to the same standards as an attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fraud is never presumed and where a written agreement is attacked on the ground of fraud, that agreement will be upheld unless the allegations of fraud are established by clear and convincing evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.