Williams v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2016
8 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 Myers v. McDonald · Warren v. Provo City Corp. · Berenda v. Langford · O'NEAL v. Division of Family Services · Becton Dickinson and Co. v. Reese
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally accepted that a statute of limitations begins to run upon the occurrence of the last event required to form the elements of the cause. of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) in situations where the discovery rule is mandated by statute; (2) in situations where a plaintiff does not become aware of the cause of action because of the defendant's concealment or misleading conduct; and (8) in situations where the case presents exceptional cireumstances and the application of the general rule would be irrational or unjust, regardless of any showing that the defendant has prevented the discovery of the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Young“The discovery rule is a judicially created doctrine under which the statute of limitation does not begin to run until the plaintiff learns of or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have learned of the facts which give rise to the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Young
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.