Nweeia v. Nweeia’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he theory upon which a case is tried in the trial court cannot be changed on review.... Moreover, an appellate court should not consider different theories or new questions if proof might have been offered to refute or overcome them had they been presented at trial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 641 - Szymonik v. Szymonik · 180 Conn. App. 744 - DeLeo v. Equale & Cirone, LLP

2. “[o]rdinarily appellate review is not available to a party who follows one strategic path at trial and another on appeal, when the original strategy does not produce the desired result.... To allow the [party] to seek reversal now that his trial strategy has failed would amount to allowing him to induce potentially harmful error, and then ambush the [opposing party and the court] with that claim on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 713 - Kirwan v. Kirwan · 189 Conn. App. 790 - Buxenbaum v. Jones