Breen v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Wolfburg v. Wolfburg (1992), Henin v. Henin (1992)
44 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 Leo v. Leo · Darak v. Darak · Timm v. Timm · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Ridgeway v. Ridgeway
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well recognized that `[t]he opening . . . of a judgment . . . is at the legal discretion of the court. Tyler v. Aspinwall, 173 Conn. 483 , 47 A. 755 [1901]. . . . . [I]t "is not to be granted readily, nor without strong reasons". . . . Wildman v. Wildman, 72 Conn. 262 , 270 , 44 A. 244 [1989].' McCulloch v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 107 Conn. 164 , 167 , 140 A. 114 (1927). `The motion should not be granted merely to allow the court to reconsider its decision on the facts and its exercise of discretion. The motion should indicate that the moving party is prepared to introduce some new matter not before the court at the time of its original decision.' 2 Stephenson, Conn. Civ. Proc. (2d Ed.) Sec. 207, p. 863; see Felton v. Felton, 123 Conn. 564 , 569 , 196 A. 791 (1938)." F W Welding Services, Inc. v. Pen-Smith, Inc., 38 Conn. Sup. 455 , 458-59 , 451 A.2d 286 ([App. Sess.] 1982).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not to be granted readily, nor without strong reasons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the liabilities of the [defendant], including the fact that at the time of trial, he was paying for the college education of one of the children.”
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.