Klinger v. Kightly’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Hansen v. Mountain Fuel Supply Co. (1993), Warren v. Provo City Corp. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · Baker v. Beech Aircraft Corp. · New Market Poultry Farms, Inc. v. FELLOWS
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statute of limitation does not begin to run until the plaintiff learns of or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have learned of the facts which give rise to the cause of action. The discovery rule functions as an exception to the normal application of a statute of limitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“refrain from doing anything that might reasonably have been expected of them that could have disclosed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the issue of whether the discovery rule applies to toll the statute of limitations is a question of law, we need show no deference to the trial court's ruling on appeal, but we review it for correctness.”
1 later decision 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.