Payne v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the action is commenced within the time limited by a rule or statute of limitation, but the judgment or decree is rendered against the plaintiff upon any ground not concluding the plaintiff’s right of action, or where the judgment or decree is rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and is arrested, or reversed on appeal, the plaintiff, or the plaintiff's representatives and privies, as the case may be, may, from time to time, commence a new action within one (1) year after the reversal or arrest”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watts v. Kroger Co. · Hunt v. Shaw

2. “Plaintiff and defendant were involved in an accident in Shelby County on September 7, 1972. Plaintiffs first suit, seeking damages for personal injuries and property damage, was filed on February 22, 1973. No further action was taken in this case, and the trial court dismissed it on its own motion for want of prosecution. The dismissal took place in either October or November of 1978, but the order of dismissal was not entered until March 13,1979. In the meantime, plaintiff filed his second suit on November 29, 1978, well within one year of the date of dismissal. During the course of the trial of the cause, the plaintiff moved for and was granted a voluntary nonsuit. An order of voluntary nonsuit was entered October 16, 1980. The case under consideration was filed October 28, 1980, clearly more than one year after the date of entry of the order of dismissal for want of prosecution of the first action, namely, March 13, 1979. Defendant then filed a motion for summary judgment on the grounds that the action was barred by [the applicable statute of limitations]....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vandergriff v. Vandergriff