Merhi v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc. (1982), Doe v. Manheimer (1989)
4 district · 111 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 Mahoney v. Beatman · Miranti v. Brookside Shopping Center, Inc. · Lombardi v. J. A. Bergren Dairy Farms, Inc. · Horvath v. Tontini · Ford v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders International Union
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`whether the harm which occurred was of the same general nature as the foreseeable risk created by the defendant's negligence.' Merhi v. Becker, 164 Conn. 516 , 521 , 325 A.2d 270 (1973); see Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., supra, 354.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . had the duty of exercising reasonable care and control to protect its invitees from dangers which might reasonably be anticipated to arise from the conditions of the premises or the activities taking place thereon”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Connecticut, the test of proximate cause is whether the defendant's conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about the plaintiff's injuries.”
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.