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Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

1958

Citation profile

83
cited by 83 later decisions
2
states following
February 2006
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Robinson v. Unemployment Security Board of Review (1980), Kellems v. Brown (1972)

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions

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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 German v. German · Waterbury Savings Bank v. Danaher · Mad River Co. v. Town of Wolcott · Bird v. Plunkett · Cedar Island Improvement Assn. v. Clinton Electric 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In seeking to ascertain the legislative intent, we may look to the history of the statute and the policy underlying it. . . . We are called upon to look beyond the literal meaning of the words to the history of the law, its language, considered in all its parts, the mischief the law was designed to remedy, and the policy underlying it. . . . We must look, also, to the basic policy as disclosed by pre-existing legislation and the circumstances which brought about the enactment of the law under consideration.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1 Conn. Cir. Ct. 530 - State v. Cooney
  2. “In seeking to ascertain the legislative intent, we may look to the history of the statute and the policy underlying it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1991 Conn. Super. Ct. 10658 - Eastern Press v. Peterson Engineering Co., No. 25 60 63 (Dec. 10, 1991)

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.