Nolan v. Borkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 district · 970 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 984 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Goggin (1988), Ruddock v. Burrowes (1998)
6 district · 970 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 Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Batick v. Seymour · Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. · D.H.R. Construction Co. v. Donnelly
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 984 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ruling on a motion for summary judgment, the court's function is not to decide issues of material fact, but rather to determine whether any such issues exist.”
255 later decisions quote this exact passage“Practice Book § [17-49] provides that rendition of a summary judgment is appropriate if the pleadings, affidavits and any other proof submitted show that there is no genuine issue of material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage“In deciding a motion for summary judgment, the trial court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
74 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.