Shorrock v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “defendant's responsibility to provide those portions of the trial transcript that are necessary for this Court to perform a meaningful review.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sean Marchionte v. Francisco Jaramillo · In re Estate of Elizabeth Brown, a/k/a Letizia I. Brown

2. “[t]he deliberate decision to prosecute an appeal without providing the Court with a transcript of the proceedings in the trial court is risky business.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Estate of Elizabeth Brown, a/k/a Letizia I. Brown · Eric Neufville v. StateState v. Eric Neufville

3. “[u]nless the appeal is limited to a challenge to rulings of law that appear sufficiently on the record and the party accepts the findings of the trial justice as correct, the appeal must fail.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Estate of Elizabeth Brown, a/k/a Letizia I. Brown