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← 460 MASS 705 - Sisson v. Lhowe

Sisson v. Lhowe’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

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.

  1. “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
  2. “[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.