Mulligan v. Hazard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

80 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he concern of Congress ... was with perpetuators of intentional tortious conduct. While both Secs. 2305.10 and 2305.11 theoretically encompass intentional tort actions, Sec. 2305.11, which applies to actions involving assaults, batteries and the like, more specifically encompasses the sorts of actions which concerned Congress as it enacted the civil rights statutes.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Shipka · Banks v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

2. “Wilson implicitly mandates that its holding be applied retroactively.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cody Crawford, Jr. v. The Broadview Savings and Loan Company · Lundblad v. Celeste

3. “in the nature of a catch-all statute of limitations, as compared to sections 2305.10 and 2305.11, and is, therefore, inapplicable to federal rights actions brought under 42 U.S.C. Secs. 1983 and 1985.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McSurely v. Hutchison