Hodge v. Parke Davis & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 6 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Wilson Torres v. Ei Dupont De Nemours & Company (2000), Fragoso v. Lopez (1993)
17 federal appellate · 17 district ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Publishers Resource, Inc. v. Walker-Davis Publications, Inc. · Willens v. University of Massachusetts
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Puerto Rican law requires knowledge of the 'author' or 'person who caused' the injury, it does not suggest that ... a plaintiff must know the exact name of the tortfeasor or the precise intracorporate relationships that determine the name of the appropriate defendant. Indeed, such a fact about corporate relationships, normally a matter of public record, is rarely the kind of fact that would prevent the limitations statute from beginning to run....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a plaintiff brings an action more than a year after the injury took place, she bears the burden of proving that she lacked the requisite 'knowledge' at the relevant times.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he key inquiry under this prong of the 'knowledge' requirement is whether plaintiff knew or 'with the degree of diligence required by law' would have known whom to sue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fragoso v. Lopez
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.