Haton v. Haton’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All actions not limited by any other statute shall be brought within ten (10) years unless the cause of that action arose before September 1, 1982, in which case the action must be brought within fifteen (15) years. In special cases, where a different limitation is prescribed by statute, the provisions of this section shall not apply.”

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

2. “The purpose of a tolling provision is to protect the right of a plaintiff to bring an action and to prevent a defendant from defeating a claim by absenting himself from the jurisdiction. It preserves [the] plaintiff's claim until such time as service on the defendant is made available.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Research Systems Corporation v. Ipsos Publicite Ipsos Usa Ipsos et al.

3. “a statute tolling the running of a period of limitations does not apply where the party claiming the benefit of the period of limitations was subject to the jurisdiction of a court in that state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Research Systems Corporation v. Ipsos Publicite Ipsos Usa Ipsos et al.