Lee v. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
April 2018
most recently cited
8 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Marshall County Health Care Authority v. Shalala · Phillips v. Bureau of Prisons · Wilson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Colbert v. Georgetown University
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ a] cause of action accrues when the breach occurs, regardless of the aggrieved party’s lack of knowledge of the breach. A breach of warranty occurs when tender of delivery is made, except that where a warranty explicitly extends to future performance of the goods and discovery of the breach must await the time of such performance the cause of action accrues when the breach is or should have been discovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff here cannot automatically be expected to know that wrongful conduct on the part of [the manufacturer] might have caused the release of the [rolling car's] parking brake at the time of her injury, particularly when no defect in the parking brake was revealed during the investigation of the accident by the police or plaintiff's expert.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the fact of an injury can be readily determined, a claim accrues for purposes of the statute of limitations at the time the injury actually occurs[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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