Sherrill v. . Connor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It being apparent that, from the nature of the case, the liability for permissive waste to the same building may be the subject of separate actions, where it is continued after one recovery, we can see no reason why his Honor should not have limited the extent of the recovery by the plaintiffs, laboring under no disability, such as prevented the statute from running to three years before the action was brought. They had the right to bring an action and adjust liabilities at any time after dower was assigned in 1866. There would have been no greater inconvenience in ascertaining the exact status of a building at the time of assessment heretofore, if an action had been brought, than would arise should the plaintiffs, in future, find, on bringing another action, alleging that the defendant had suffered buildings to be injured still more for want of repair since the damage had been ascertained in this action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 Ohio App. 409 - Reams v. Henney, Admr.

2. ““We think that his Honor- erred when he told the jury that, on account of the continuous character of the injury, no statute of limitations applied to the permissive waste. While we find no direct authority upon the question, the general principles governing the assessment of damages, and the application of them in other analogous cases, lead us to a conclusion very different.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 Ohio App. 409 - Reams v. Henney, Admr.