Jimenez v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 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. ““The discovery rule applies to the facts which give rise to the cause of action, not to the legal significance of such facts.” [Citation omitted.] We believe that principle equally applicable to the provision of A.R.S. [section] 12-502(B) that one imprisoned has the statute [of limitations] tolled until he “discovers the right to bring the action or with the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the right to bring the action.” While discovery of “the right to bring the action” could be interpreted expansively to mean knowledge of legal rights, we can discern no reason why the legislature would want the statute [of limitations] to run against law-abiding persons ignorant of the legal significance of known facts but not against imprisoned criminals similarly ignorant. We therefore reject the apparently contrary construction in Vaughan v. Grijalva, 927 F.2d 476 (9th Cir.1991).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harju v. Duncan · Vega v. Morris

2. “the facts which give rise to the cause of action, not to the legal significance of such facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Jolley