Brumfield v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. “[T]he test as to whether the claimant is so “mentally incompetent” as to toll the running of the statute of limitations, is this: Is his mind so unsound, or is he so weak in mind, or so imbecile, no matter from what cause, that he cannot manage the ordinary affairs of life? “The purpose of the savings statute is to protect the legal rights of those who are unable to assert their own rights due to disability.” Rockwell v. Preferred Risk Mut. Ins. Co., 710 So.2d 388, 391 (Miss.1998).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stroud Ex Rel. Stroud v. Progressive Gulf Ins. Co. · 167 So. 3d 259 - Patricia Vick v. Brandon HMA, Inc.

2. “If any person entitled to bring any of the personal actions mentioned shall, at the time at which the cause of action accrued, be under the disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, he may bring the actions within the times in this chapter respectively limited, after his disability shall be removed as provided by law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stroud Ex Rel. Stroud v. Progressive Gulf Ins. Co. · 167 So. 3d 259 - Patricia Vick v. Brandon HMA, Inc.

3. “All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 F. Supp. 2d 716 - Hampton v. Gannett Co., Inc. OSA