O'Connor v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““One who is himself in the legal enjoyment of his property cannot have his rights therein forfeited to another, for failure to bring suit against that other within a time specified to test the validity of a claim which the latter asserts but takes no steps to enforce. ” Cooley on Constitutional Limitations (7th Ed.), p. 522.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watz v. Sunderland

2. ““It is an attempt to compel one who is in full possession of his property and who thereby makes the most positive assertion of his rights, to resort to a court, not to gain his own, but to restrain another from asserting an unwarrantable claim.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beuthien v. Dillon