Greenberg v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “At issue is the objective effect of the defendant's [conduct] on discoverability by a reasonable person.... [T]he statutory period does not begin to run if ... the plaintiff's failure of discovery, objectively determined, is brought about by the very nature of the defendant's conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dalrymple v. Brown · John Barren, an Incompetent, by His Guardian, Henrietta Barren v. United States

2. “the jury might well have concluded that the defendant’s statement that the sexual relationship was wrong reflected his feeling that sex between him and the plaintiff was improper or immoral, rather than his opinion that it was improper psychiatric care, and that it was reasonable for plaintiff not to infer that the treatment was damaging for her.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Wallace

3. “where the injury and cause thereof are subtler and more complicated than in the normal malpractice case, it seems particularly inappropriate to determine as a matter of law what the plaintiff should have known”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John Barren, an Incompetent, by His Guardian, Henrietta Barren v. United States