55 Or. App. 658 - Hoffman v. Rockey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A plaintiff should discover that he has a cause of action when he realizes (1) that he has been injured, (2) that the injury can be attributed to an act of the alleged tortfeasor, and (3) that the act of the alleged tortfeasor was somehow negligent."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 Or. App. 555 - Gaston v. Parsons · Bussineau v. President of Georgetown College

2. “The cause of action must necessarily accrue to some person or legal entity. To say that a cause of action accrues to a person when she may maintain an action thereon and, at the same time, that it accrues before she has or can reasonably be expected to have knowledge of any wrong inflicted upon her is patently inconsistent and unrealistic. She cannot maintain an action before she knows she had one. To say to one who has been wronged, "you had a remedy, but before the wrong was ascertainable to you, the law stripped you of your remedy," makes a mockery of the law. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bussineau v. President of Georgetown College

3. “claim, because the Statute of Limitations had run, and submitted the other claims to the jury, which returned a verdict for the defendant. We held that the refusal to give a requested instruction to the jury was error. The plaintiff's other assignment of error was that the trial court erred in directing a verdict on the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 Or. App. 555 - Gaston v. Parsons