Goodwin v. Giovenelli’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Conservation Commission v. Price (1984), Aaron v. Conservation Commission (1981)
2 district · 29 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 Harris v. . White · Kelley v. Killourey · Coogan v. Lynch · Dorman v. Carlson · Ansell v. City of Boston
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where an exception forms an integral part of that portion of a statute which creates a right, it becomes a limitation upon that right, and a plaintiff, to avail himself of the benefit of the statute, must show that he comes within the limited class for whose benefit the right was established, the burden of proof in this respect being upon him." Goodwin vs. Giovenelli, 117 Conn. 103 , 107 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Donahue v. Pease · Donahue v. Pease“".... the legislative intent required that the terms trespass and tort referred to be interpreted to mean those which were committed upon the person or property of the owner or keeper or of his family, and other torts of a like character which the dog would instinctively defend and protect, including those committed upon the dog itself, *Page 431 which were likely to incite it to attack."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Donahue v. Pease · Donahue v. Pease“.... except when such damage shall have been occasioned to the body or property of a person who, at the time such damage was sustained, was committing a trespass or other tort”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donahue v. Pease
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.