Belanger v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2011
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Evans v. Liguori · Webbier v. Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, Inc. · Fontaine v. Devonis · State v. Berberian · Powless v. PAWTUCKET SCREW COMPANY, INC.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““in order to avoid highlighting a remark that the jury might otherwise have ignored, [the trial justice] allowed defendant to decide whether or not a cautionary instruction should be given. In opting against such an instruction, defense counsel said ‘I certainly waive any request, and expressly request that the Court, at this time, not make any instruction to the jury.’ In assigning as error both the trial justice’s refusal to pass the case and his failure to give a cautionary instruction, defendant now attempts to renege on his counsel’s trial strategy. This we will not permit.” Id. at 24 , 384 A.2d at 609 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Resende
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.