Piper v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 district · 78 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . where the means of knowledge are at hand, and the purchaser undertakes to make an examination of the land records, he cannot say that he was deceived and injured by misrepresentations of the vendor.” 207 Md. at 314, 113 A. 2d at 922 .”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 34 Md. App. 41 - Ryan v. Brady · Fireison v. Pearson

2. ““It is thus entirely true that Section 14 of our Statute of Limitations does not require that the defendant must commit a fraud distinct from the original fraud for the purpose of keeping the plaintiff in ignorance of his cause of action. But it is also true that this section, by its own terms, is made to apply only in those cases where two conditions are shown to exist: (1) where a party has been kept in ignorance of his cause of action by the fraud of the adverse party, and (2) where he himself has exercised usual or ordinary diligence for the discovery and protection of his rights. Hence, as Judge Groner stated in Insurance Co. of North America v. Parr, 4 Cir., 44 E. 2d 573, 576, this section ‘enjoins upon a party invoking its terms a showing of diligence, and if in the exercise of diligence, the fraud of the adverse party might have been discovered, the failure to exercise it is fatal to the right after the period of limitations has run.’ ” Id. at 318 . * * * “As we have pointed out, Section 14 requires a plaintiff to show affirmative [sic] that he was kept in ignorance of his right of action by the fraud of the adverse party. The replication in this case does not specifically allege how defendants kept plaintiffs in ignorance of their right of action. But the chief defect of the replication is that it does not specifically allege how plaintiffs made the discovery of the fraud, and why they did not make the discovery sooner than they did. The replication is entirely lacki”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ochse v. Henry · Mettee v. Boone

3. ““In all actions where a party has a cause of action of which he has been kept in ignorance by the fraud of the adverse party, the right to bring suit shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which such fraud shall or with usual or ordinary diligence might have been known or discovered.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Citizens National Bank v. Leffler · Leonhart v. Atkinson