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← 156 Conn. 49 - Simonelli v. Fitzgerald

Simonelli v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2003
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2003

11 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 Arnold v. Hollister · Mitchell v. Bickford · Lewis v. Crowell · McMahan v. McMahan

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a simple method whereby a mortgage, the invalidity of which is undisputed, may be declared invalid by the Court and removed as a cloud on the title to property.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gordon v. Tufano · 1995 Conn. Super. Ct. 2825 - Westview Village v. Barberino, No. 0124447 (Mar. 22, 1995)
  2. “gives the court no jurisdiction to determine the validity or invalidity of a disputed mortgage of long standing. . . . Thus, the Superior Court, pursuant to § 49-13 , could render judgment for the plaintiffs only if no evidence was offered of a payment on account of the mortgage debt within seventeen years, or of any other act within such period in recognition of the existence of a valid mortgage. When such evidence is offered, the court has no jurisdiction to proceed further in favor of the plaintiffs.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1995 Conn. Super. Ct. 2825 - Westview Village v. Barberino, No. 0124447 (Mar. 22, 1995)
  3. “The statute [§ 49-13] gives the court no jurisdiction to determine the validity or invalidity of a disputed mortgage of long standing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gordon v. Tufano

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.