In Re Vincenti’s Empirical Analysis

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34 state decisions

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

1. “... is not for the sake of the presiding judge but for the sake of the office he or she holds. Respect for and confidence in the judicial office are essential to the maintenance of any orderly system of justice. This is not to suggest that a lawyer should be other than vigorous, even persistent, in the presentation of a case; nor is it to overlook the reciprocal responsibility of courtesy and respect that the judge owes to the lawyer. Unless these respective obligations are scrupulously honored, a trial court will be inhibited in performing two essential tasks: sifting through conflicting versions of the facts to discover where the truth lies, and applying the correct legal principles to the facts as found. Under the best of circumstances these tasks are difficult; without an orderly environment they can be rendered impossible. [In re Vincenti, 92 N.J. 591, 603-604 (1983) ].”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Breiner · In THE MATTER OF APPLICATION OF McLAUGHLIN

2. “[T]hrough all the [years] * * * the legal profession has played a role all its own. The bar has not enjoyed prerogatives; it has been entrusted with anxious responsibilities. One does not have to inhale the self-adulatory bombast of after-dinner speeches to affirm that all the interests of man that are comprised under the constitutional guarantees given to "life, liberty and property" are in the professional keeping of lawyers. [ In re Vincenti, 92 N.J. 591, 603 , 458 A. 2d 1268 (1983) (quoting Schware v. Board of Examiners, 353 U.S. 232, 247 , 77 S.Ct. 752, 760 , 1 L.Ed. 2d 796, 806 (1957) (Frankfurter, J., concurring)).]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matter of Anis · Matter of Daniels

3. “Under some circumstances it might be difficult to determine precisely the point at which forceful, aggressive trial advocacy crosses the line into the forbidden territory of an ethical violation. But no matter where in the spectrum of courtroom behavior we would draw that line, no matter how indulgent our view of acceptable professional conduct might be, it is inconceivable that the instances of respondent’s demeanor that we are called upon to review in these proceedings could ever be countenanced. The record lays bare a shameful display of atrocious deportment calling for substantial discipline. [Id. at 592.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matter of Vincenti