Burrows v. Vanderbergh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is, so far as we can discover, no reason at all why the legislature, in enacting the general saving statute, should make a distinction between contracts upon which an action may be maintained at once and those not yet due. Each class of contracts seems entitled to exactly the same consideration and in our opinion both are within the meaning of the clause, ‘Causes of action not in suit.’ The qualifying clause, ‘that accrued prior to any such repeal,’ &as reference, not to the time when the right to institute an action accrued, but to the time when the obligation out of which the action arose came into existence. This construction of the general saving law is consonant with reason and brings the act of 1897 into entire harmony with the provision of the federal Constitution inhibiting the enactment of any law impairing the obligation of contracts.” Burrows v. Vanderbergh, 69 Neb. 43 , 95 N. W. 57 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stowers v. Stuck