Rotelli v. Catanzaro’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Wilkinson v. State Crime Laboratory Commission (2002), Galloway v. Roger Williams University (2001)
6 district · 94 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 Fashion House, Inc. v. K Mart Corp. · Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc. · Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. v. Dial Media, Inc. · Hydro-Manufacturing, Inc. v. Kayser-Roth Corp. · Mallane v. Holyoke Mutual Insurance Co. in Salem
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of the summary-judgment procedure is to identify disputed issues of fact necessitating trial, not to resolve such issues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It has long been a general rule in this jurisdiction that instruments executed ‘at the same time, for the same purpose and in the course of the same transaction * * * are to be considered as one instrument and are to be read and construed together.’ Old Kentucky Distributing Corp. v. Morin, 50 R.I. 163, 165 , 146 A. 403, 404 (1929); see also Maderios v. Savino, 418 A.2d 839, 842 (R.I.1980) (promissory notes executed as part of single transaction construed together to determine the mutual rights and obligations of the parties). Moreover, instruments referred to in a written contract may be regarded as incorporated by reference and thus may be considered in the construction of the contract.” Rotelli 686 A.2d at 94 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A contract may be deemed ambiguous only if 'it is reasonably and clearly susceptible of more than one interpretation.'”
2 later decisions 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.