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Wright v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

197
cited by 197 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

8 district · 189 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority (1988), Shore v. Town of Stonington (1982)

8 district · 189 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 Kellems v. Brown · Rossignol v. Danbury School of Aeronautics, Inc. · Ross Realty Corp. v. Surkis · United Aircraft Corporation v. Fusari · Kostyal v. Cass

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

  1. “'refers to [one] which is to be performed in a prescribed manner without the exercise of judgment or discretion.'”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Houlihan v. City of Milford, No. Cv92 038357s (Jan. 22, 1993) · Lee v. Perez, No. Cv90 0108394 S (Jun. 20, 1991)
  2. “[l]iability in nuisance can be imposed on a municipality only if the condition constituting the nuisance was created by the positive act of the municipality”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Melfi v. City of Danbury, No. 31 15 64 (Apr. 30, 1996) · Doherty v. City of Ansonia, No. Cv98 006 36 24 (Jun. 22, 1999)
  3. “First, the plaintiff must be within the class of persons protected by the statute. [ Coughlin v. Peters , 153 Conn. 99 , 101 , 214 A.2d 127 (1965)]; Hassett v. Palmer , 126 Conn. 468 , 473 , 12 A.2d 646 [1940]; Monroe v. Hartford Street Ry. Co. , 76 Conn. 201 , 207 , 56 A. 498 (1903). Second, the injury must be of the type which the statute was intended to prevent. Toomey v. Danaher , 161 Conn. 204 , 212 , 286 A.2d 293 [1971]; Longstean v. McCaffrey's Sons , 95 Conn. 486 , 36; Restatement (Second), 2 Torts 286, 288.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Rivera v. Fairbank Management Prop., No. Lpl-Cv-96-0134876s (Aug. 11, 1997) · 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 9834 - Gutierrez v. Jefferson Street Med. Bldg., No. Cv 93 0529230s (Sep. 27, 1994)

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.