Bourque v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2012
13 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 Woart v. Winnick · Willard v. Harvey · Clark v. Clark · Gilman v. Cutts
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] statute which changes or modifies the remedy of a party for the recovery of his claim ... or reduces or enlarges the time within which the action must be prosecuted, is not within the prohibition of the Constitution as a retrospective law, so long as it leaves to the party, practically, a suitable remedy to enforce his rights....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Patten“[t]he statute of limitations may be changed by an extension of the time, or by an entire repeal, and affect existing causes of action, which by the existing law would soon be barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Preston
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.