Gaddis v. Hongell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * This was clearly a precipitate step. Every judge should refrain from forming or expressing an opinion as- to issues of fact until the case has been finally submitted to him. (Citation omitted.) This court has twice said that findings of fact should not be made either on motion of counsel or by a judge sw sponte until the evidence has been completed. (Citations omitted.) A plaintiff, and his counsel as well, must surely be frustrated when told that their claim has no merit — not only before a trial is finished, but when it has barely gotten under way.” Gaddis v. Hongell, supra, 117 A.2d at 232 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A & C Adjusters, Inc. v. Bragg

2. ““As is well known and understood, the procedures established for the small claims court were designed to make the services and protection of that court available to every litigant, plaintiff or defendant, without a lawyer. But as ought to be equally well understood, it was never intended that lawyers be barred from that court or that there be any interference with their traditional functions when they appear there.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Poff

3. ““ * * * it is the right of every litigant to enjoy the full protection and effective assistance of his own counsel. That is just as important to a civil litigant as to one who is a defendant in a criminal case. * * * ” Id., 117 A.2d at 232 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A & C Adjusters, Inc. v. Bragg