Jung v. Jung’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 7 state decisions

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

1. “Pretrial discovery is intended to operate via the parties’ voluntary cooperation with a minimum of judicial oversight, and consequently, it is vulnerable to parties who choose to employ obstructive tactics in bad faith. The subversion of the discovery process by such means seriously harms the administration of justice. When discovery abuses come to the attention of the judge, the judge has a duty to take proportionate and effective countermeasures. For that purpose, Super. Ct. Civ. R. 87 permits the trial court to select from a range of sanctions, including the award of attorney’s fees and expenses, the preclusion of claims or defenses, and the dismissal of an action or the entry of a judgment of default. The decision to impose discovery sanctions is left to the broad discretion of the trial court, and this court will reverse only if the trial court abuses its discretion by imposing a penalty too strict or unnecessary under the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nichols v. First Union National Bank

2. “Okay. We’re going to bring the [audio] tape [of our meetings] to the lawyer. We’re going to hire the lawyer. Then we’ll see what we can do. That's something we can do. Let’s just fight till the death, to the death. Okay. Let's go.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jung v. Jung

3. “[t]he decision to impose discovery sanctions is left to the `broad discretion' of the trial court,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Jam. J.