Faerber v. Cavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Freeman v. Continental Gin Co. · Andrews v. Bechtel Power Corp. · Carter v. Supermarkets General Corp. · Ricard v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. · Inleasing Corp. v. Jessup
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.
“[e]ven if a litigant is acting pro se , he or she is expected to familiarize himself or herself with the law as well as the rules of procedure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he trial justice’s discretional authority to deny amendments to pleadings when delay is involved must always be placed within the scope of the spirit of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure: ‘They shall be construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action.’ ” Faerber, 568 A.2d at 329 (emphasis added) (quoting Rule 1 of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““With respect to undue delay, * * * where ... a considerable period of time has passed between the filing of the complaint and the motion to amend, courts have placed the burden upon the movant to show some valid reason for his neglect and delay.” Carter, 684 F.2d at 192 (emphasis added) (internal quotation marks omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.