Billion v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The provisions of this act shall not apply to any action commenced, nor to any cases where the right of action or of entry shall have accrued before the time when this act takes effect, but the same shall remain subject to the laws then in force. ” .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Choteau v. Harvey · Telanus v. Simpson

2. ““What are the laws here referred to? The laws in force at the time the act took effect, or at the time the right of action accrued? The plaintiff! assumes the latter position, and claims that her right of action accrued in 1832, upon the death of Connell, when the limitation act of 1825 was in force, giving twenty years in which to sue, after the removal of disabilities, and that this latter act is the one that fixes the rights of parties. The position assumed is not sustainable. It is at variance with the letter and spirit of the law, and the whole tendency of legislation on this subject for the last generation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Choteau v. Harvey

3. ““The construction put upon the existing statute of limitations as to real ■actions is that, where ten years have elapsed from the taking effect of the act, the action is barred, although it first accrued under some act of limitar tions which gave a longer period in which to bring it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Choteau v. Harvey