Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 19 Conn. App. 146 - Albrecht v. Albrecht (1989), Clement v. Clement (1994)
86 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 Standard Tallow Corp. v. Jowdy · Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers · Cologne v. Westfarms Associates · Wards Company, Inc. v. Stamford Ridgeway Associates and Trim Fashions, Inc., Stamford Ridgeway Associates · Web Press Services Corp. v. New London Motors, 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a contempt proceeding, even in the absence of a finding of contempt, a trial court has broad discretion to make whole any party who has suffered as a result of another party's failure to comply with a court order.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“courts prefer the more equitable and rational interpretation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he intention of the parties . . . is to be determined by a fair and reasonable construction of the language used interpreted in light of the situation of the parties, the circumstances connected with the transaction, the motives of the parties and the purposes which they sought to accomplish.' John F. Epina Realty, Inc. v. Space CT Page 11325 Realty. Inc., 194 Conn. 71 , 77-78 , 480 A.2d 499 (1984); Stelco Industries, Inc. v. Bette, 2 Conn. App. 17 , 20 , 475 A.2d 1105 (1984).”
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.