West v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he purpose of statutes of limitations is to protect defendants from the injustices that may result from the prosecution of stale claims.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Long v. Holland America Line Westours, Inc. · Bradshaw v. State, Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles

2. “The notice and mistake elements are particularly intertwined when, as here, there is a close relation between the original party and the party to be added. In such a situation, failure to join the connected party is more immediately recognizable as error, and it is easier to establish that the new party should have known that, but for a mistake, she would have been included. Therefore, 'courts have generally held that the mistake condition is satisfied when the original party and added party have a close identity of interests.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. Gieringer

3. “it is entirely reasonable for a judge whose responsibility it is to try a case to reconsider and reverse an earlier ruling if convinced that that ruling was erroneous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gold Dust Mines, Inc. v. Little Squaw Gold Mining Co.