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← 172 CONN 496 - Lockwood v. Killian

Lockwood v. Killian’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
4
states following
March 2003
most recently cited

4 district · 52 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Savage v. Aronson (1990), Cologne v. Westfarms Associates (1984)

4 district · 52 state decisions

2301977198019902000decided

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 Wisconsin v. Yoder · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis

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

  1. “The Attorney General shall ... represent the public interest in the protection of any gifts, legacies or devises intended for public or charitable purposes....”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Hankin v. Auxiliary of the Winsted Memorial Hospital (In re Winsted Memorial Hospital) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 4739 - Blumenthal v. Barnes, No. Pjr Cv-99-0430843s (Apr. 27, 2000)
  2. “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law nor be subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment of his or her civil or political rights because of religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin or sex.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Sykes Memorial Sch. Trustees v. Lieberman, No. 38931 (Nov. 15, 1990) · 408 So. 2d 711 - Schreiner v. McKENZIE TANK LINES, ETC.
  3. “[t]he equal protection clauses of our state and federal constitutions are designed as a safeguard against acts of the state. . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Nationwide Mutual Fire Ins. v. Maurillo, No. Cv 000273558s (Mar. 14, 2003) · 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 7372 - Nationwide Ins. Co. v. Comito, No. Cv99-0270188-S (Jun. 6, 2002)

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.