Dugan v. Grzybowski’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably Mahoney v. Furches (1983), 32 Conn. App. 530 - Dainty Rubbish Service, Inc. v. Beacon Hill Ass'n (1993)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Carl E. Weller and Emily I. Weller v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, W. Stuart Emmons v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Byram Lumber & Supply Co. v. Page · Perruccio v. Allen · Cochran v. City of Boston · Schubert v. Ivey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The second rule is that [w]here two clauses which are apparently inconsistent may be reconciled by a reasonable construction, that construction must be given, because it cannot be assumed that the parties intended to insert inconsistent and repugnant provisions.”
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.