Kerlin v. Sauceda’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “operate to prevent the litigation of stale claims; they “afford plaintiffs what the legislature deems a reasonable time to present their claims and protect defendants and the courts from having to deal with cases in which the search for truth may be seriously impaired by the loss of evidence, whether by death or disappearance of witness, fading memories, disappearance of document or otherwise. The purpose of a statute of limitation is to establish a point of repose.... ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gordon R. Gross v. the City of Houston

2. “[I]f a nonresident is amenable to service of process under the longarm statute and has contacts with the state sufficient to afford personal jurisdiction ... then we can discern no reason why a nonresident’s 'presence’ in this state would not be established for purposes of the tolling statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zavadil v. Safeco Insurance Co. of Illinois

3. “Temporary Absence From State. The absence from this state of a person against whom a cause of action may be maintained suspends the running of the applicable statute of limitations for the period of the person’s absence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ashley v. Hawkins