Wheeldon v. Monon Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 533 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Hentosh v. Herman M. Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School (1999), Smith v. City of Chicago Heights (1992)
22 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.
Relationships
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois
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.
“permits a plaintiff to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations if despite all due diligence he is unable to obtain vital information bearing on the existence of his claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“granting of equitable estoppel should be premised on a defendant's improper conduct as well as a plaintiff's actual and reasonable reliance thereon.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“often focuses on the plaintiff's excusable ignorance of the limitations period and on the lack of prejudice to the defendant.”
3 later decisions 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.