Jensen v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 859 F. Supp. 1521 - Gordon & Breach Science Publishers S.A. v. American Institute of Physics (1994), Women Prisoners of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia (1996)
12 federal appellate · 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.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he three year period within which an action to recover damages for ... injury to property caused by the latent effects of exposure to any substance or combination of substances, in any form ... upon or within property must be commenced shall be computed -from the date of discovery of the injury by the plaintiff or from the date when through the exercise of reasonable diligence such injury should have been discovered by the plaintiff, whichever is earlier.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Carames Dep.”) (Dkt. No. 44-4) at 6:7-8. . General Electric disposed of hazardous waste from its Fort Edward-Hudson Falls plant from 1958 to 1969. It entered into a consent order with DEC in 1980 under which it agree to investigate environmental impacts and to undertake remediation at seven inactive hazardous waste sites (the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`provide relief to injured New Yorkers whose claims would otherwise be dismissed for untimeliness simply because they were unaware of the latent injuries until after the limitation period had expired'”
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.