Baker v. Stonebraker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions

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

1. ““The doctrine is well established that, where an act of this kind operated to extinguish the contract or debt itself, the case no longer falls within the law of limitations on the remedy merely. In such case, when the debt or . judgment is sued on in another state, the lex loci contractus, and not the lex fori, is to govern. Sto. Confl. of Laws, § 582; Huber v. Steiner, 2 Bing. N. C. 202. These authorities admit a qualification, that ‘the parties are within the jurisdiction during all the period of the statute, so that it has actually operated on the case.’ This qualification is to be understood of cases where the statute itself expressly makes exceptions of the absence of the parties beyond the jurisdiction, in which case it would not operate on them. But where, as in this case, the statute makes no exception of the absent party, but is absolute in its terms, this qualification is inapplicable. 1- Smith’s Lead. Cas. 368.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co. v. Maldonado & Co.