85 F. App'x 77 - Boyd v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Elder Holloway et al · Malone v. University of Kansas Medical Center · Pizel v. Zuspann · Amfac Distribution Corp. v. Miller · 565 So. 2d 1323 - Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. v. Lane
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a plaintiff will not be permitted to characterize a tort action as one in contract in order to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moshier v. Fisher“became sufficiently final for the plaintiffs to know that they could bring a malpractice claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Hillyard
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.