Grody v. Tulin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. (1990), Ecker v. Town of West Hartford (1987)
8 district · 66 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 Spencer v. Good Earth Restaurant Corporation · Willoughby v. City of New Haven · Mahoney v. Beatman · Ardoline v. Keegan · Terminal Taxi Co. v. Flynn
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he standard for the preservation of a claim alleging an improper evidentiary ruling at trial is well settled. This court is not bound to consider claims of law not made at the trial.... [A] party cannot present a case to the trial court on one theory and then seek appellate relief on a different one ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he elements of a cause of action . . . for a wrongful death are clear from the explicit language of the statute. . . . The plaintiff must prove not only a violation of a standard of care as a wrongful act, but also a causal relation between the injury and the resulting death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to whether an earlier diagnosis and treatment [which may have been beneficial] ... might have prolonged [decedent's] life”
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.