1 Conn. App. 550 - Jonap v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Romaine v. Kallinger (1988), Kaye v. Town of Manchester (1990)
14 district · 152 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc.
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cause of action is that single group of facts which is claimed to have brought about an unlawful injury to the plaintiff and which entitles the plaintiff to relief.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“An amended complaint, if permitted, relates back to and is treated as filed at the time of the original complaint unless it alleges a new cause of action.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to establish invasion of privacy by false light, the plaintiff must show (a) the false light in which the other was placed would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) the actor had knowledge of or acted in reckless disregard as to the falsity of the publicized matter and the false light in which the other would be placed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.