Cummings v. Tripp’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 district · 350 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 358 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Dunham v. Dunham (1987), Pet v. Department of Health Services (1988)
8 district · 350 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 McKart v. United States · Smith v. Allwright · Bianco v. Town of Darien · LaCroix v. Board of Education · 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 358 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person specifically and materially damaged by a violation of the zoning ordinances which has occurred or is likely to occur on another's land may seek injunctive relief restraining such violation [without exhausting administrative remedies].”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e cannot state too strongly . . . the necessity for clear and precise allegations of specific and material claims of damage in order to establish the threshold requirement for this exception to the exhaustion doctrine.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The Court has] frequently CT Page 10895 held that when a party has a statutory right of appeal from the decision of an administrative officer or agency, he may not, instead of appealing, bring an independent action to test the very issue which the appeal was designed to test.”
6 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.