State v. Assuntino’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Valeriano v. Bronson (1988), Cannavo Enterprises, Inc. v. Burns (1984)
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 Willoughby v. City of New Haven · State v. Muolo · Connecticut Chiropody Society, Inc. v. Murray · State v. Caplan · Brown v. Cray
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the common-law writ of error was adopted by Connecticut as part of its own common law. No statute has expressly abrogated that law.... [T]he writ, at common law, lies to this court from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The writ [of error] has long lain to this court ... in accordance with statutes which have been merely declaratory of the common law. It is therefore concluded that the writ, at common law, lies to this court ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipwith“unnecessary for this court to consider whether the jurisdiction to hear such a writ is an essential attribute of the constitutional role of this court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipwith
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.