Isidro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. United Technologies Corp. · Gateway Co. v. DiNoia · Truk-Away of Rhode Island, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Avon Meadow Condominium Ass'n v. Bank of Boston Connecticut · Tarzia v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies only in circumstances in which the plaintiff's original action failed by reason of naming, in fact, the wrong defendant; that is, in cases in which the naming of the wrong defendant was the product of a reasonable and honest mistake of fact as to the identity of the truly responsible individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To allow such an action to continue at this time would defeat the basic purpose of the public policy that is inherent in statutes of limitation, i.e., to promote finality in the litigation process.”
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.