Norcliffe v. Resnick’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2018
3 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 Caprio v. Fanning & Doorley Construction Co. · Forcier v. Forcier · Catone v. Multimedia Concepts, Inc. · Curtis v. Diversified Chemicals & Propellants Co. · Simmons v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having found that the fourteen-month delay in effecting service of process was unreasonable and inexcusable, the trial justice did not abuse his discretion in dismissing the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] showing of prejudice * * * is not required to sustain a trial justice's dismissal of the complaint for a plaintiff's failure to comply with the requirements of Rule 4.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n unreasonable delay in procuring service of process constitutes noncompliance with Rule 4 * * * for which dismissal may be granted pursuant to Rule 41(b)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.