State v. DiPrete’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “as a sanction for failure to comply with discovery is within the sound discretion of the trial court and should not be overturned absent a clear abuse of that discretion.” .We have repeatedly used those very same words in describing summary judgment case dismissals on the civil side, but yet have repeatedly approved such dismissals. . I certainly derive no sense of justification for my dissent from the unusual self-contradicting position that the majority now finds itself in as a result of its earlier order in Rawlinson . However, I firmly believe that the earlier pronouncement by this Court in that case, which was said to represent the opinion of the members of this Court on a question concerning the legal interpretation of one of the more important rules of Superior Court procedure, should not be lightly cast aside and referred to as a "weak reed”

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