Aultman v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 40 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] cause of action accrues only when it comes into existence as an enforceable claim,”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 447 So. 2d 1278 - Matter of Estate of Kimble · 611 So. 2d 962 - Schiro v. American Tobacco Co.

2. “[a] person may not make an entry or commence an action to recover land except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or to bring the action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims, or, if the right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or bring the action shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing the same... .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Reid · 607 So. 2d 97 - Greenlee v. Mitchell

3. “[w]here the alleged fraudulent conveyance is recorded, the circumstances are public and the means of finding out the character of the transaction is available. Consequently, the running of the statute of limitations is not prevented”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 797 So. 2d 869 - O'Neal Steel, Inc. v. Millette · McMahon v. McMahon