Hardin v. Farris’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1993), Shadrick v. Coker (1998)
4 district · 40 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 Massiah v. United States · Huggins v. Raines · Guy v. SCHULDT · Mantz v. Follingstad · Lakeman v. LaFrance
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statutory limitation on the time for bringing the action will not begin to run until the right of action is discovered, or, by the exercise of ordinary diligence, could have been discovered. [ 87 N.M. at 146 , 530 P.2d at 410 ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. [Fraudulent concealment is not restricted to actions in which fraud is the gist of the action. [Citation omitted]. Neither does it create a new or separate cause of action. It merely tolls the running of a statute of limitations. [Citation omitted]. Normally some positive act of concealment must be shown such as a false representation. . [Emphasis added] [ 87 N.M. at 146 , 530 P.2d at 410 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaston v. Hartzell“However, in a confidential relationship where there exists a duty to speak, ... mere silence constitutes fraudulent concealment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramsey v. Culpepper
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.