Costa v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably State v. Carbone (1977), Waterbury Teachers Assn. v. Furlong (1972)
26 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 10 E.H. Smith 286 - People v. . Thorn · Walgreen Co. v. Industrial Commission · State Ex Rel. Wallen v. Hatch · Hamblin v. Superior Court · Fair Haven & Westville Railroad v. City of New Haven
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such repeals [by implication] are not favored, and *Page 75 when an earlier and later statute can be reconciled, it is the duty of the court to so construe them that the latter may not operate as a repeal of the former.”
1 later decision 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.