Sisson v. Lhowe’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Rosewell v. National Bank · Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen · Klein v. Catalano · Franklin v. Albert
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of a statute of repose ... is to suppress fraudulent and stale claims from springing up at great distances of time, and surprising the parties, or their representatives, when all the proper vouchers and evidences are lost, or the facts have become obscure, from the lapse of time, or the defective memory, or death, or removal of witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he only way to satisfy the absolute time limit of a statute of repose is to commence the action prior to the expiration of that time limit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.