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← 209 CONN 191 - Nichols v. Warren

Nichols v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

93
cited by 93 later decisions
3
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

6 district · 85 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Starr v. Commissioner of Environmental Protection (1993), Abed v. Commissioner of Correction (1996)

6 district · 85 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 Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · Johnson v. Manson · Verrastro v. Sivertsen · Waterbury Petroleum Products, Inc. v. Canaan Oil & Fuel Co.

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

  1. “"`[T]he construction of a statute for regulations on an issue that has not previously been subjected to judicial scrutiny is a question of law on which an administrative ruling is not entitled to special deference." (citations omitted.) Nicholas v. Warren, 209 Conn. 191 , 203 (1988).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bermudez v. Administrator, No. 370447 (Sep. 4, 1991) · 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 7743 - Middlesex Hospital v. Town of East Hampton, No. 65288 (Aug. 17, 1992)
  2. “[I]f a statute is clear and unambiguous, there is no room for construction . . . [w]hen the statutory language is clear and unambiguous, it is from that source that we deduce the intent of the legislature.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 123 - State v. One 1985 Toyota Camry, No. Cr93-449242 (Jan. 6, 1994) · 1993 Conn. Super. Ct. 9437 - State v. One 1982 Chevrolet Corvette, No. Cr93-446829 (Nov. 29, 1993)
  3. “has been construed as a related adjective referring back to and identifying something previously spoken of and that it naturally, by grammatical usage, refers to the last precedent.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cohen v. Yale-New Haven Hospital, No. 365908 (Jan. 17, 2003) · 181 Conn. App. 492 - Jepsen v. Camassar

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.