Sleet v. Sleet’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The only change that the statute makes in the article amended is in substituting for the words ‘all other open accounts’ the words ‘all other accounts,’ and the effect is that the prescription denounced [sic] is now made to apply to accounts stated or rendered, and verbally or tacitly acknowledged, as well as to open accounts not so acknowledged. This being the case, it makes no difference whether the account sued on is an unacknowledged open account, or whether it is an account stated or rendered, and verbally or tacitly acknowledged, since it is not asserted that it has been acknowledged in writing, or that any note or bond has been given, or that it has ever been sued on before, from which it follows that the prescription running against it can have been interrupted only by the institution of the present action.” (The italics are mine.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett-Brewer Hardware Co. v. Wakeman · Bennett-Brewer Hardware Co. v. Wakeman

2. “"The following actions are prescribed by three years;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 73 So. 2d 6 - Great American Indemnity Co. v. Laird