85 Mich. App. 266 - Wallace v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2003
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“there is no need to protect plaintiff from defendant's stale claim, in that it is no staler than his own, being based upon the very same accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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