Terry v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 628 · 1877
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 19 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), United States v. Locke (1985)
77 federal appellate · 19 district · 181 state decisions — followed in 42 states
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 Sturges v. Crowninshield · Sohn v. Waterson · Adam Ogilvie v. The Knox Insurance Company Levi Sparks · Terry v. Tubman
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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has often decided that statutes of limitation affecting existing rights are not unconstitutional, if a reasonable time is given for the commencement of an action before the bar takes effect [citing cases]. It is difficult to see why, if the Legislature may prescribe a limitation where none .existed before, it may not change one which has already been established. The parties to a contract have no more vested interest in a particular limitation which has been fixed than they have in an unrestvictive right to sue. * * * In all such cases the qtiestion is one of reasonableness, and we have, therefore, only to consider whether the time allowed in this statute is, und.er,all the circumstances, reasonable. Of that the Legislature is primarily the .ludge; and we cannot overrule the decision of that department of the government unless a palpable error has been committed.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[SJtatutes of limitation affecting existing rights are not unconstitutional, if a reasonable time is given for the commencement of an action before the bar takes effect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ordinarily, a creditor must put bis demand into judgment against bis debtor, and exhaust bis remedies! at law before be can proceed in equity to subject dioses in action to its payment. To tbis rule, however, there are some exceptions; and we are not prepared to say that a creditor of a dissolved corporation may not, under certain circumstances, claim to be exempted from its operation.””
2 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.