Sharkiewicz v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. (1972), Valeriano v. Bronson (1988)
52 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 Yudkin v. Gates · Farnam v. Farnam · Doolittle v. Clark · State Ex Rel. Gold v. Usher
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The subject of signing and issuing process in civil actions is one of consequence. Such signing is one of the processes of law by which a man may be deprived of his liberty and property. It is carefully guarded. It is not to be done indiscriminately. Doolittle CT Page 1198-R v. Clark, 47 Conn. 316 , 322 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were made in the course of a discussion by the court of the subject before it and with no intent to lay down in positive form a rule of law.”
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.