Essex Holding, LLC v. Basic Props., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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33 state decisions

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

1. “An appellate court wastes judicial resources by confirming that the [post-trial] motion did not repeat issues made before judgment was entered. It is an 'arduous' process that is both 'inefficient' and susceptible to 'inconsistent results.' It compels this Court to review the merits of the motion to determine whether the motion could be asserted at all-effectively premising the validity of a post-judgment motion on the likelihood of its success. Finally, it denies the right of appeal to an appellant who files a post-judgment motion that merely repeats arguments, even though the very reason that a trial court should deny such a motion is that the appellant's 'proper recourse is appeal-not reargument.' ' We do not function for the purpose of ... mak[ing] an appeal disappear, but exist to administer justice to those who come to settle their disputes .'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ianelli v. Camino

2. “The purpose of evaluating for cumulative error is to address whether the cumulative effect of two or more individually harmless errors has the potential to prejudice the defendant to the same extent as a single reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schell v. Scallon

3. “We do not function for the purpose of ... making an appeal disappear, but exist to administer justice to those who come to settle their disputes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. MSC v. MCG