Slade v. Slade’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 145 Wis. 2d 573 - Professional Office Buildings, Inc. v. Royal Indemnity Co. (1988), Corliss v. Corliss (1976)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 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 52 Ill. App. 2d 262 - Gregory v. Gregory · In Re Goldsworthy's Estate · In Re Field's Estate · Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Rose Realty, Inc. · Peters v. Weber
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes of limitation begin to run against everyone, including minors, when the cause of action accrues, and tolling statutes only extend the time for completing the bar of the statute so that the minor shall have an opportunity to act for himself after the disability caused by his minority has been removed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law favors the right of action rather than the right of limitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exceptions to statutes of limitations must be construed strictly”
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.