Attardo v. Ambriscoe’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Masterson v. Atherton (1962), Petrizzo v. Commercial Contractors Corporation (1965)
29 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 Wolfe v. Rehbein · Robinson v. Southern New England Telephone Co. · Noebel v. Housing Authority · McPheters v. Loomis · Goldberger v. David Roberts Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the facts, the defendant could not be charged with that reasonable anticipation of harm which would be the basis of liability in negligence here. Reasonable care does not require that one must guard against eventualities which, at best, are too remote to be reasonably forseeable. Noebel v. Housing Authority, [ 146 Conn. 197 , 202 , 148 A.2d 766 (1959)]; Goldberger v. David *Page 644 Roberts Corporation, 139 Conn. 629 , 632 , 96 A.2d 309 [1953].”
2 later decisions 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.