Peralta v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Howell Ex Rel. Howell v. Burk (1977), Roberts v. Southwest Community Health Services (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · Ayers v. Morgan · Beaufort Concrete Company v. Atlantic States Construction Company · 6 Cal. 2d 302 - Huysman v. Kirsch · Wilkinson v. Harrington
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.
“'[T]he limitation period begins to run from the time the injury manifests itself in a physically objective manner and is ascertainable.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [W]here a party against whom a cause of action accrues prevents the one entitled to bring the cause from obtaining knowledge thereof by fraudulent concealment ... or where the cause is known to the injuring party, but is of such character as to conceal itself from the injured party, ... the 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. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“there is no cause of action for malpractice until there has been a resulting injury.”
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.