Civil actions can only be commenced within the periods prescribed in this chapter after the cause of action shall have accrued, except when, in special cases, a different limitation is prescribed by statute.
Idaho Code § 5-201
Limitations in general
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Lapham v. Stewart (2002)
Most recently applied in Barry Stimpson v. Midland Credit Mgmt., Inc. (December 2019)
C.C.P. 1881, § 141; R.S., R.C., & C.L., § 4030; C.S., § 6594; I.C.A., § 5-201.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.