Pierce v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rubano v. DiCenzo · Mason v. Bowerman Bros., Inc. · State v. Bryant · Tillinghast v. Johnson · Nolan v. Representative Council of Newport
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘consistently and repeatedly mandated that a trial or hearing justice should not certify a question of law to [the Supreme] Court unless and until he or she first carefully considers the question or questions sought to be certified and then, after having had the benefit of counsels’ research and informed arguments, believes that he or she is unable to resolve the question satisfactorily.’ ” Pierce v. Pierce, 770 A.2d 867, 870 (R.I.2001).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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