tolling
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 424 - Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · 1965Most cited · 2,154 citing opinions
statute of limitations
The basic question to be answered in determining whether, under a given set of facts, a statute of limitations is to be tolled, is one of legislative intent whether the right shall be enforceable * * * after the prescribed time.
How often courts cite the case defining “tolling”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tolling” — 2,148 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.