State v. Boucher’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 state decisions

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

1. “(Citations omitted). The essential feature of a public use is that it is not confined to privileged individuals or groups whose fitness or eligibility is gauged by some predetermined criteria, but is open to the indefinite public. It is the indefiniteness or unrestricted quality of potential users that gives a use its public character. (Citations omitted). State v. Boucher, supra, 615 . In the present action, the plaintiff incorrectly argues that the”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. McNeil · 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 7032 - Storrs v. Commissioner of Connecticut Dmv, No. Cv 97 64414 S (June 16, 1998)

2. “lots, areas or other accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the street or highway and open to public use with or without charge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 7032 - Storrs v. Commissioner of Connecticut Dmv, No. Cv 97 64414 S (June 16, 1998) · 1991 Conn. Super. Ct. 10372 - Gally v. Delponte, No. 44598 (Dec. 16, 1991)

3. “[A]ny parking lot ... which the general public has access to, is a public parking lot. The terms ‘open to the public’ and to which ‘the public has access’ [in drunk driving statutes] are usually held to be broad enough to cover parking lots of restaurants, shopping centers, and other areas where the public is invited to enter and conduct business.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Martinez-Gonzalez