Skip to content
lawlint
Esc
navigateopen⌘Jpreview
On this page

no-anaphoric-openers

Flags repeated sentence openers across a document

Property Value
Kind Hard rule
Engine statistical
Tier statistical
Severity warning
Intent style
Scope text

Examples

Flagged

The court reviewed the motion and the supporting record. The court considered the response from both parties. The court examined the affidavits submitted with the motion. The court compared those affidavits with the hearing transcript. The court rejected the unsupported account. The court denied relief on the present record. The court entered judgment for the respondent. The court retained jurisdiction over costs.

Better

The court reviewed the motion and the supporting record. It considered the response from both parties, compared the affidavits with the hearing transcript, and rejected the unsupported account. Relief was denied on the present record, and the court retained jurisdiction over costs.

Turning it off

lawlint --disable no-anaphoric-openers draft.md

Or durably, in .lawlint/config.json — see Configuration.