Godden v. Kimmell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

90 federal appellate · 16 district · 41 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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where there has been laches * * * or long acquiescence In the assertion of adverse right, he [plaintiff! should set forth in his bill specifically what wore the impediments to an earlier prosecution of the claim; and, if iie does not, the chancellor may justly refuse to consider his case on his own showing, without inquiring whether there is a demurrer or any formal plea of the statute of limitations contained In the answer.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Van Vleet v. Sledge · Naylor v. Foreman-Blades Lumber Co.

2. ““But the rule still is that when a party has boon guilty of such laches in prosecuting his equitable remedy as would bar him if his title was solely at law, he will be barred in equity, from a wise consideration of the paramount importance of quieting titles.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barden v. City of Duluth · Wells Fargo Nevada Nat. Bank v. Barnette

3. ““Courts of equity, in cases of concurrent jurisdiction, consider themselves bound by the statutes of limitation which govern courts of law in like cases; and this father in obedience to the statutes than by analogy.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nash v. Ingalls · Benedict v. City of New York