Orsi v. Orsi’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2002
22 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 Lyman v. Lyman · Yale Gas Stove Co. v. Wilcox · Finnegan v. Lafontaine · LaFrance v. LaFrance · Setaro v. Pernigotti
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he wrong must be done to the defendant himself and must be in regard to the matter in litigation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“title to the property because the defendant's prior conveyance of the title to him was motivated by the illegal purpose. The Supreme Court rejected his argument, finding it immaterial whether the original conveyance was motivated by the illegal purpose as long as the subsequent conveyance of the title was not vitiated by misrepresentations improper influences or the breach of a confidential relationship. Id., 70 . The court affirmed the trial court's ruling that the original illegal purpose could not be taken into consideration CT Page 11099 because it did not”
2 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.