Bond v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[p]ursuant to the death knell exception, an interlocutory appeal is permitted only when substantial rights of a party will be irreparably lost if review is delayed until final judgment. The cost and delay of litigating [absent an interlocutory appeal] does not qualify as a loss of substantial rights or permanent foreclosure of relief.... Application of the death knell exception is a fact-specific inquiry that requires examination of the merits of each case.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Carrillo · McCain v. Vanadia

2. “In the context of appeals from orders for attachment or trustee process ... we have, at least implicitly, concluded that such orders are immediately appealable, regardless of whether they present a major and unsettled question of law.”). An insurer’s duty to defend its insured does not present such a question. The judicial economy exception applies”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Irving Oil Limited v. ACE INA Insurance

3. “A judgment is final only if it disposes of all the pending claims in the action, leaving no questions for the future consideration of the court.”

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