Bishop v. Twiford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"With regard to the threshold matter of whether the court is open to a particular litigant, obviously the policy of the forum state is extremely important. In this respect, the bar or absence thereof in a state's workmen’s compensation statute is somewhat analogous to the bar of a state’s statute of limitations. The latter matter, of course, is controlled by the law of the forum."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ward v. Nationwide Mutual Automobile Insurance