Creem v. Cicero’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Childs v. Bainer (1995), 27 Conn. App. 471 - Jeffries v. Johnson (1992)
59 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 Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. · Birgel v. Heintz · Katsetos v. Nolan · Harry A. Finman & Son, Inc. v. Connecticut Truck & Trailer Service Co. · Zarrelli v. Barnum Festival Society, 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, it is manifestly unjust for the jury to fail to award damages for pain and suffering when it awards special damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our Supreme Court has held . . . that an award of $100 can qualify as nominal damages. Hammarlund v. Troiano, 146 Conn. 470 , 473 , 152 A.2d 314 (1959).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court should be hesitant to set aside a jury's verdict and must only do so when the jury verdict so shocks the sense of justice as to compel the conclusion that the jury was influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption.”
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.