Peacock v. Barnes.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 15 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A man should not be allowed to close his eyes to facts readily observable by ordinary attention, and maintain for his own advantage the position of ignorance. Such a principle would enable a careless man, and by reason of his carelessness, to extend his right to recover for an indefinite length of time, and thus defeat the very purpose the statute was designed and framed to accomplish. In such case, a man’s failure to note facts of .this character should be imputed to him for knowledge; and, in the absence of any active or continued effort to conceal a fraud or mistake or some essential facts embraced in the inquiry, we think the correct interpretation of the statute should be that the cause of action will be deemed to have accrued from the time when the fraud or mistake was known, or should have been discovered in the exercise of ordinary diligence.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roether v. National Union Fire Insurance · 55 N.C. App. 523 - Hiatt v. Burlington Industries, Inc.

2. “when discovery was or should have been made by the exercise of ordinary diligence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fulcher v. United States