Orticelli v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 district · 225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably American Universal Insurance v. DelGreco (1987), Ecker v. Town of West Hartford (1987)
14 district · 225 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Peck v. Jacquemin · Gomeau v. Forrest · State v. Smith · Muha v. United Oil Co.
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding a motion for summary judgment, the trial court is limited to considering the pleadings, affidavits and other documentary proof submitted by the parties.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The general rule is that where the right of action exists independently of the statute in which the limitation is found, such a statutory bar is considered personal and procedural, and it is deemed waived unless it is specially pleaded."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rules of practice in Connecticut require that all pleadings be closed before a party may move for summary judgment.”
4 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.