Duncan v. Queenan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““If a statute requires an act to be done a certain time before an event, the day on which the event occurs may be included in computing the time, but if the act is required to be done a certain time before the day on which an event occurs, the day on which the event occurs must be excluded; in either case the day on which the act is done may be counted as one day and part of the time. * * * ” (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Treadway v. Miller