Dalton v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 26 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A party, even though his suspicions have been aroused, may well be lulled into confidence, and take no action by such representations as were made.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mingenback v. Mingenback · Amen v. Black

2. ““A petition, otherwise sufficient, expressly alleging the fraud therein relied on was not discovered until a date certain, which was less than the two years from the date of the commencement of the action, and containing no other facts suggesting a source from which such fraud could or should have been discovered earlier in the exercise of reasonable diligence is sufficient to withstand an attack by demurrer based upon the ground it fails to state a cause of action.” (Syl. [4].)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stratton v. Wood Construction Co.

3. ““Amendments to a petition which amplify a cause of action imperfectly pleaded, or which substitute a correct for an erroneous statement of facts relied on for recovery, ordinarily relate back to the commencement of the proceeding, but where the amendment sets forth a new cause of action the statute of limitations continues to run until the amendment is filed.” (Syl.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. LaForge