Altair Corporation v. Pesquera De Busquets S’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 30 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Gilbert v. City of Cambridge (1991), Rodriguez Narvaez v. Nazario (1990)
30 federal appellate · 25 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · O'Sullivan v. Felix · Estelle v. Justice U S · Kadar Corp. v. Milbury
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a § 1983 case concerning the unlawful taking of property, the statute of limitations begins to run on the date of the wrongful appropriation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to toll the statute, the action [instituted] in the courts must be the case at bar, and not merely a somewhat related action arising from the same facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cuesnongle v. Ramos“confuse[d] a continuing act with a single act [his demotion] that has continuing consequences.”
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.