Robertson v. Apuzzo’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Little v. Streater (1981), Seals v. Hickey (1982)
2 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Allen · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The early Connecticut bastardy statutes made no provision for jury trial. . . . although [f]or sometime it was the practice to try the issue of not guilty by the jury. . . . [O]ne cannot CT Page 8051 say that in our legal system the jury is a necessary component of accurate factfinding. . . . Juries are not required, and have not been, for example, in equity cases, in workmen's compensation, in probate, or in deportation cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[R]equirements of due process are not fixed but depend on the nature of the case under consideration and the relative interests, both governmental and private, involved. . . . It is well settled that in Connecticut paternity actions are civil and not criminal proceedings and the general rules governing civil actions apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Nothing in our law is more elementary than that the trier is the final judge of the credibility of witnesses and of the weight to be accorded their testimony.'”
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.