Dollarhide v. Bancroft’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the circumstances surrounding each case must be examined, keeping in mind the conflict between the need for the court to manage its docket for the purpose of preventing undue delay on the one hand, and the policy favoring disposition of cases on the merits on the other hand.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northwest Building Co. v. Northwest Distributing Co.

2. “'has always been the policy of our law to resolve doubts in favor of permitting parties to have their day in court on the merits of a controversy'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northwest Building Co. v. Northwest Distributing Co.