Chastain v. Geary’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Despite the well-discussed concerns and uncertainties attendant to the use of nunc pro tunc amendments to convert a previous ruling into a final judgment, our Supreme Court has allowed an appeal to proceed where 'it [was] clear that the trial court intended to finalize the judgment for purposes of appeal' by entering a nunc pro tunc order to retitle an order as a judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A.R.J. v. C.M.L.

2. “[a]ny party to a suit aggrieved by any judgment of any trial court in any civil cause from which an appeal is not prohibited ... may take his or her appeal to a court having appellate jurisdiction from any ... [f]inal judgment in the case ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jaeger v. Res. for Human Dev., Inc.

3. “assist the litigants and the appellate courts by clearly distinguishing when orders and rulings of the [circuit] court are intended to be final and appealable and when the [circuit] court seeks to retain jurisdiction over the issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jaeger v. Res. for Human Dev., Inc.