Larkin v. Bontatibus’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Alarm Applications Co. v. Simsbury Volunteer Fire Co. (1980), Gentile v. Altermatt (1975)
39 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 Sigal v. Wise · Connecticut Savings Bank v. First National Bank & Trust Co. · Town of Enterprise v. State ex rel. Attorney-General · Hillman v. City of Pocatello · Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Town of Oconto
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means no more than that there must appear a sufficient practical need for the determination of the matter.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The remedy by means of declaratory judgements is highly remedial and the statute and rules should be accorded a liberal construction to carry out the purposes underlying such judgments. One great purpose is to enable parties to have their differences authoritatively settled in advance of any claimed invasion of rights . . . . Fully to carry out the purposes intended to be served by such judgments, it is sometimes necessary to determine rights which will arise or become complete only in the contingency of some future happening.”
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.