State v. DeVille’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2002
8 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We therefore express the view that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to vacate its prior oral order of July 26, 1971, excluding the testimony of the witness. Rule 3.220(f) RCPr provides that, `.. . A person who refuses to obey a subpoena served upon him [under this discovery rule] may be adjudged in contempt of the court from which the subpoena issued.' The court was punishing the state's attorney's office, and thereby the public for the activities of the witness; sanctions, if any, should have been imposed upon the `wrongdoer' who apparently was the witness."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.