Jones v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ It is also said that one cannot, by amendment, introduce a new cause of action. * * * Here the plaintiff has but one cause of action. He failed to properly describe it. The question here is whether the court has power to permit plaintiff to amend his declaration so that he may recover on the precise cause of action for which he brought suit, but which he failed to properly describe in his declaration. We think it is clear that he has that power.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Pendleton

2. ““ Under our previous decisions in this case, the cause of action stated in the proposed amended declaration is a different cause of action from that stated in the original declaration-, and if at the time of Judge Mandell’s order the statute of limitations had run against the cause of action, he did not err in refusing to allow the amendment, and his order must be sustained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Pendleton