Colligan v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Wagner v. Clark Equipment Co. (1997), Commercial Union Insurance v. Frank Perrotti & Sons, Inc. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Mahoney v. Beatman · Roden v. Connecticut Co. · Corey v. Phillips · Zatkin v. Katz · Rutkowski v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Whether a superseding cause was of such a character as to prevent an act of negligence of the defendant from being a substantial factor in producing a plaintiff's injury is ordinarily a question of fact. Corey v. Phillips, [ 126 Conn. 246 , 254 , 10 A.2d 370 (1939). Roden v. Connecticut Co., 113 Conn. 408 , 413 , 155 A. 721 [1931].' Colligan v. Reilly, 129 Conn. 26 , 30 , 26 A.2d 231 (1942).”
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.