cause of action accrues
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 312 U.S. 96 - Rawlings v. Ray · 1941Most cited · 397 citing opinions
The words 'after the cause of action shall accrue' in the Arkansas statute have their usual meaning and refer to 'a complete and present cause of action'.
How often courts cite the case defining “cause of action accrues”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cause of action accrues” — 394 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.