Lopez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.2d 982 · 1936
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1980
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 38 U.S.C. § 511 · 38 U.S.C. § 516
Relies on Missouri Kansas Texas Pailway Company v. Sallie C Wulf · Singleton v. Cheek · McDonald v. Nebraska · Pagel v. Pagel · McCullough v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * While the North Carolina holding is to the contrary (Bennett v. North Carolina R. Co., 159 N.C. 345 , 74 S.E. 883 ), the clear weight of authority supports the rule, that ‘an amendment changing capacity in which a plaintiff sues does not change the cause of action so as to let in the defense of limitations.’ See exhaustive note on this subject in 74 A.L.R. pages 1269— 1276. And this is the rule applied by the federal courts under R.S. § 954, 28 U.S.C.A. § 777 ; Missouri, K. & T. R. Co. v. Wulf, 226 U.S. 570, 576 , 33 S.Ct. 135 , 57 L.Ed. 355 ; McDonald v. State of Nebraska, 8 Cir., 101 F. 171 ; Leahy v. Haworth, 8 Cir., 141 F. 850 , 4 L.R.A.,N.S., 657; Reardon v. Balaklala Consol. Copper Co., C.C., 193 F. 189 , affirmed 9 Cir., 220 F. 584 ; Quaker City Cab Co. v. Fixter, 3 Cir., 4 F.2d 327 ; Weldon v. United States, 1 Cir., 65 F.2d 748 ; Keystone Coal & Coke Co. v. Fekete, 6 Cir., 232 F. 72, 73 ; Bixler v. Pennsylvania R. Co., D.C., 201 F. 553 .” Lopez v. United States, 1936, 82 F.2d 982, 987 .”
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.