State v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners (1991), State v. Pickering (1980)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 172 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 State v. Sul · State v. Silver · State v. Carta · State v. Smith · State v. Coulombe
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) deliberate indifference to, acquiescence in, or the creation of situations inimical to the minor's moral or physical welfare . . . and (2) acts directly perpetrated on the person of the minor and injurious to his moral or physical well-being.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he use of the disjunctive 'or' between the two parts of the statute indicates a clear legislative intent of separability”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sec. 53-21 . Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children. Any person who wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that its life or limb is endangered, or its health is likely to be injured, or its morals likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair CT Page 13179 the health or morals of any such child, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. (1949 Rev., S. 8369.)”
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.