Newberry v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Reasonable attention to an affair peculiarly his own would have led plaintiff, at least soon after bis arrival at age, to the possession of all the knowledge he acquired immediately prior to the bringing of the suit. But he delayed the institution of his suit until the statute of limitations had fully run against him and in favor of the surety. * * * We are of the opinion that, had the suit been seasonably instituted after the plaintiff became of age, the bar of the statute of nonclaim would not have stood in the way of his recovery, and, of course, had the suit been brought but a few days earlier, the statute of limitations * * * would not have run at all. We are impelled to the conviction, however, that the delay suffered by plaintiff after he was in possession of information challenging further inquiry on his part, and after he had arrived at legal age, * * * amounts to laches on his part, and a court of chancery will not now interpose to remove the bar of either of such statutes of limitation, nor will it afford him' the relief prayed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.