Cersosimo v. Cersosimo’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill (1988), Darak v. Darak (1989)
4 district · 73 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Faretta v. California · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Bozzi v. Bozzi
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bound by the same rules of evidence and procedure as those qualified to practice law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nless and to the extent that [a] decree precludes modification, any final order for the periodic payment of permanent alimony or support . . . may at any time thereafter be continued, set aside, altered or modified by said court upon a showing of substantial change in the circumstances of either party or upon a showing that the final order for child support substantially deviates from the child support guidelines established pursuant to section 46b-215a . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`established policy to allow great latitude to a litigant who, either by choice or necessity, represents himself in legal proceedings, so far as such latitude is consistent with the just right of any adverse party.'”
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.