Cilley v. Lamphere’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc. (1990), Demar v. Open Space & Conservation Commission (1989)
53 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 Seals v. Hickey · Murach v. Planning & Zoning Commission · City of Waterbury v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities · Perretta v. City of New Britain · West Hartford Taxpayers Assn., Inc. v. Streeter
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that a city's charter is the fountainhead of municipal powers. . . . The charter serves as an enabling act, both creating power and prescribing the form in which it must be exercised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`When language used in a statute is clear and unambiguous, its meaning is not subject to modification or construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] [board of representatives] [has] no source of authority beyond the charter.”
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.