18 Conn. App. 581 - Sidney v. DeVries’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Meadows v. Higgins (1999), Sidney v. DeVries (1990)
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 Rowe v. Godou · Gionfriddo v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. · Caulkins v. Petrillo · Pepe v. City of New Britain · Pawlinski v. Allstate Insurance
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.
“When the evidence needed to establish that no cause of action lies is consistent with the allegations necessary to establish a prima facie case, a special defense is required.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]acts which are consistent with [a plaintiff's] statements [of fact] but show, notwithstanding, that the plaintiff has no cause of action, must be specially alleged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defense based upon the HIA must be specially pleaded . . . but if evidence relating to the defense is admitted without CT Page 7636 objection, the failure to allege a special defense is waived.”
2 later decisions 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.