Petty v. Cleveland’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “To have made the bar, interposed by the statute [of limitation in the present case], a defense in the present instance, it ought certainly to have been made by plea or exception a defense in the court below.”

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