Leone v. Knighton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2010
22 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 Alaimo v. Royer · Lawson v. Godfried · Broschart v. Tuttle · Hasbrouck v. Hasbrouck · Tillinghast v. Leppert
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the complaint clearly state such facts as will bring the case within the provisions of the statute . . . [and] that the claim for relief be specifically based upon the statutory remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unless the plaintiff could establish that he was injured because of a violation of one of the so-called `rules of the road' enumerated in § 14-295 , and not for any other alleged cause of action, he has no remedy under that statute.”
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.