Smith v. MacDougall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 6 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “B. If a person entitled to bring an action ... is at the time the cause of action accrues imprisoned, the period of such disability shall exist only until such time as the person imprisoned discovers the right to bring the action or with the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the right to bring the action, whichever occurs first, and such person shall have the same time after the disability ceases to exist which is allowed to others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zuck v. State

2. “If a person entitled to bring an action ... is at the time the cause of action accrues ... imprisoned, the period of such disability shall not be deemed a portion of the period limited for commencement of the action. Such person shall have the same time after removal of the disability which is allowed to others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zuck v. State

3. “The legislature may reasonably have concluded that imprisonment as a practical matter is a sufficient impediment to a prisoner’s ability to protect his rights through the judicial system to warrant its designation as a disability under § 12-502.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marks v. Parra