Griffin v. Capital Cash’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A suit at law is not a children’s game, but a serious effort on the part of adult human beings to administer justice; and the purpose of process is to bring parties into court. If it names them in such terms that every intelligent person understands who is meant, as is the case here, it has fulfilled its purpose; and courts should not put themselves in the position of failing to recognize what is apparent to everyone else.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Englert, Inc. v. LeafGuard USA, Inc. · McCall v. Ikon

2. “A corporation may be known by several names in the transaction of its business. If it is sued in a name under which it transacts business, the process will ordinarily be sufficient to bring it before the court. The misnomer of a corporation has the same effect as the misnomer of an individual. If it later appears that the true name of the corporation is different from the name under which it was sued, the misnomer is properly a subject of amendment. However, failure to correct the corporate name does not invalidate the process or the judgment where the misnomer causes the corporation no prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Englert, Inc. v. LeafGuard USA, Inc.