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Zapata v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

319
cited by 319 later decisions
6
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

10 district · 309 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 319 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), Gazo v. City of Stamford (2001)

10 district · 309 state decisions

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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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Roe v. Wade · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson

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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The burden of establishing the absence of a genuine issue of material fact and the entitlement to recovery as a matter of law lies with the moving party.”
    22 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gianetti v. Donahue, No. 319218 (Sep. 27, 1996) · Gianetti v. Donahue, No. 319218 (Sep. 27, 1996)
  2. “[i]t is now the almost CT Page 8959 universal rule that the contractor is liable to all those who may foreseeably be injured by the structure, not only when he fails to disclose dangerous conditions known to him, but also when the work is negligently done. This applies not only to contractors doing original work, but also to those who make repairs, or install parts, as well as supervising architects and engineers.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Zercie v. Vantage Point Condominium Association, No. 398828 (Apr. 5, 2000) · 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 16007 - Andretta v. Rudig, No. Cv99 065340 (Dec. 14, 1999)
  3. “[l]egislative enactments carry with them a strong presumption of constitutionality”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Diviney v. Smith, No. Cv 91 0287011s (Feb. 26, 1992) · State v. Lessard, No. Cr92-125419 (Mar. 15, 1993)

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.