Stone v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 1043 · 1992
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews (2001), Hoblock v. Albany County Board of Elections (2005)
47 federal appellate · 19 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Allen v. McCurry · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A cause of action accrues when a reasonably diligent plaintiff would have been put on inquiry as to the existence of a right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each act of infringement is a distinct harm giving rise to an independent claim for relief.”
4 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.