131 F. Supp. 2d 46 - Lederman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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

1. “Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, actions for the following purposes may not be brought after the expiration of the period specified below from the time the right to maintain the action accrues ... (4) for libel, slander, assault, battery, mayhem, wounding, malicious prosecution, false arrest or false imprisonment — 1 year; ... (8) for which a limitation is not otherwise specially prescribed — 3 years[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 831 F. Supp. 2d 313 - McDonald v. Kempthorne

2. “This Circuit has recognized, however, that 'interests respectively protected by federal constitutional law and local assault law are not congruent, and that injuries inflicted by officers acting under color of (legal authority) are significantly different in kind from those resulting from acts of private persons,’ ”), quoting Payne v. Gov't of D.C., 559 F.2d 809 , 817 n.31 (D.C. Cir. 1977); id. at 62 (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pierce v. Mattis