Loewenberg v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably In re Rayna M. (1987), Roche v. Town of Fairfield (1982)
97 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 Dawson v. Town of Orange · Lomas & Nettleton Co. v. City of Waterbury · Gager v. Carlson · Padula v. Padula · Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. v. Sciortino
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one cannot create a title in himself merely by proof of a set of deeds purporting to constitute a chain of title ending with a conveyance to himself.”
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.