Harris v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 161 · 1878
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1985
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Lessee James Ewing v. Jacob Burnet · Arrington v. Liscom · John Green v. John Liter · Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Springer
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a cause of action has accrued, and the statute of limitations has commenced to run during the lifetime of a person, the running of the statute is not interrupted by his subsequent decease and the descent of the right of action to his heirs, though minors at the time and under disability to sue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aldridge v. Caskey
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.