Perrin v. Coates’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““as we pointed out in McSparran it would be harsh to apply our new rule retrospectively to a case such as this, in which the plaintiff’s rights' would be lost because the statute of limitations bars the institution of a new suit in the state court”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brinkman v. Forman