State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The certification process contemplated by §9-24-27 entails a total stoppage of a trial pending determination of the certified question. Such a drastic step may only be taken after every effort of court and counsel has been exhausted and no satisfactory answer reached. Only then may a trial justice, in his discretion, halt trial proceedings and certify a question to the Supreme Court.” Id. at 94-95, 372 A.2d at 78-79 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jenison

2. ““before certifying a question, the trial justice must determine, in his discretion, that the question is of doubt and importance and that ‘* * * aided by the research and arguments of counsel [he] is unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion * * *.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jenison