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← 764 A2D 727 - DeBlois v. Clark

DeBlois v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ogden v. Saunders · Dart Industries, Inc. v. Clark · Blount v. Boston · State v. Neary · State v. the District of Narragansett

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

  1. “The 'burden of persuasion' refers to the litigants' burden of establishing the truth of a given proposition in a case by such quantum of evidence as the law may require[,]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. The City of Cranston, by and through its Finance Director Robert Strom and its City Treasurer David Capuano
  2. “shifts from party to party as the case progresses.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. The City of Cranston, by and through its Finance Director Robert Strom and its City Treasurer David Capuano
  3. “burden of going forward with the evidence,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. The City of Cranston, by and through its Finance Director Robert Strom and its City Treasurer David Capuano

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.