Crabtree v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 state decisions

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

1. “provides local zoning enforcement officers with a means to enforce local zoning laws. The statute CT Page 10535 specifically grants the zoning enforcement officer the power to sue for injunctive relief as well as to impose monetary fines and to enforce its rules by instituting a suit to enjoin a party from violations of zoning laws.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 10530 - Town of Southbury v. Smarrelli, No. 104659 (Oct. 17, 1994)

2. “A decision to grant or deny an injunction [, however,] must be compatible with the equities in the case which include the gravity and willfulness of the violation, as well as the potential harm to the defendants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 9998 - City of West Haven v. Gamelin, No. Cvnh 9708-8389 (Aug. 17, 1998)