Going v. Cromwell Fire District’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2011
24 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 Powers v. Hotel Bond Co. · Hurlbut v. Lemelin · Klapproth v. Turner · State Ex Rel. Rourke v. Barbieri · Lee v. Lee
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“created a fictitious relationship of employer-employee between volunteer firemen and the municipality ... to ensure the payment of benefits to volunteer firemen similar to those provided for regular firemen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incurred while in training for or engaged in volunteer fire duty ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in training or engaged in volunteer fire duty”
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.