John L. Taylor v. Western And Southern Life Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 1188 · 1992
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Cheek v. Western and Southern Life Insurance Company (1994), McGinest v. GTE Service Corp. (2004)
58 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Conley v. Gibson · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress’ silence on a limitations period ... shows its willingness to accept reasonable limitations periods rather than a strong policy in favor of some particular limitations period. Because Congress did not provide an express statute of limitations applicable to this cause of action, allowing the parties to contract for a shorter limitations period than that which would be borrowed from state law is not contrary to public policy, assuming the contracted-for limitations period is reasonable ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is well established that, in the absence of a controlling statute to the contrary, a provision in a contract may validly limit, between the parties, the time for bringing an action on such contract to a period less than that prescribed in the general statute of limitations, provided that the shorter period itself shall be a reasonable period.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“like or reasonably related to the allegations of the charge and growing out of such allegations.”
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.