Davey v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““When a suit is brought within the time fixed by the analogous statute, the burden is on the defendant to show, either from the face of tho bill or by Ms answer, that extraordinary circumstances exist which require the application of the doctrine of laches; and, when such a suit is brought after the statutory time has elapsed, the burden is on the complainant to show, by suitable averments in Ms bill, that it would be inequitable to apply it to Ms case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schwartz v. Loftus