Elgin v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 209 Ill. 2d 76 - Vitro v. Mihelcic (2004), Kahale v. City and County of Honolulu (2004)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 66 Wis. 2d 394 - Shockley Ex Rel. Shockley v. Prier · 19 Cal. 3d 461 - Baxter v. Superior Court · Wilson v. Galt · Lee v. Colorado Department of Health · Antonopoulos v. Town of Telluride
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a legal representative is appointed for [a] person under disability at any time after the right [of action] accrues and prior to the termination of such disability, the applicable statute of limitations shall run against such person under disability in the same manner, for the same period, and with the same effect as it runs against persons not under disability. Such legal representative ... in any event shall be allowed not less than two years after his appointment within which to take action on behalf of such person under disability, even though the two-year period expires after the expiration of the period fixed by the applicable statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“medical and other expenses incurred because of the child's injuries, loss of household and similar services that the injured child would have rendered during his or her minority, and loss of the child's earning capacity during minority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person otherwise under disability as defined in section 13-81-101 [, C.R.S. ( 2021 ) ] , in which case the action may be maintained within the time period as provided in section 13-81-103 [, C.R.S. ( 2021 ) ] .”
1 later decision 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.