Faraday v. Dube’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

cited by 34 later decisions

states following

May 1999

most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Saphir v. Neustadt (1979), Lukas v. City of New Haven (1981)

30 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 Klapproth v. Turner · Bahre v. Hogbloom · Hellman v. Karp · Judson v. Blanchard · Comstock v. Weed

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

“[t]he history of judicial interpretation of the Connecticut paternity statutes reflects the propensity of this court to construe liberally the term `maintenance' so as to carry out the underlying purpose of the legislation and assure that the child is well provided for.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 210 - Bretemps v. Strona, No. Fa-96-0620924 (Jan. 24, 1997) · 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 4055 - Rand v. Duval, No. 535304 (May 3, 1996)
“[i]f the defendant is found guilty, the court shall order him to stand charged with the support and maintenance of such child . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Anderson v. Williams, No. Fa 98-062 47 99s (Jul. 14, 1998) · 1990 Conn. Super. Ct. 850 - State v. Gagliardi, No. Fa87 02 18 91s (Aug. 21, 1990)
“If the defendant is found to be the father of the child, the court or family support magistrate shall order him to stand charged with the support and maintenance of such child, with the assistance of the mother if she is financially able, as said court finds, in accordance with the provisions of section 17-82e, 17-295, 17-324, subsection (b) of section 17-578, section 17a-90 , 46b-129 , 46b-130 or 46b-215 to be reasonably commensurate with the financial ability of the defendant, and to pay a certain sum periodically until the child attains the age of eighteen years; and the court or family support magistrate shall order him to pay the amount thereof to the complainant, or, if a town or the state has paid such expense, to the town or the state, as the case may be, and shall grant execution for the same and costs of suit CT Page 11829 taxed as in other civil actions, together with a reasonable attorney's fee; and may require him to become bound with sufficient surety to perform such orders for support and maintenance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 11828 - Schultheiss v. Urioste, No. Fa92 01222207 S (Dec. 22, 1992)

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.