Caulfield v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably City of Shelton v. Commissioner (1984), Roman v. City of Stamford (1988)
2 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 Kellems v. Brown · Davis v. Edwards · Jennings v. Connecticut Light & Power Co. · Hurlbut v. Lemelin · West Coast Advertising Co. v. City & County of San Francisco
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a general law, in order to prevail over a conflicting charter provision of a city having a home rule charter, must pertain to those things of general concern to the people of the state”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“home rule legislation was enacted “to enable municipalities to conduct their own business and control their own affairs to the fullest possible extent in their own way ... upon the principle that the municipality itself knew better what it wanted and needed than did the state at large, and to give that municipality the exclusive privilege and right to enact direct legislation which would carry out and satisfy its wants and needs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was to make operative the concept that the closer those who make and execute the laws are to the citizens they represent, the better are those citizens governed in accordance with democratic ideals”
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.