Merly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Chotkowski v. State (1997), Lagassey v. State (2004)
2 district · 91 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 Burns v. Hartford Hospital · Catz v. Rubenstein · Lambert v. Stovell · Tough v. Ives · Sanger v. City of Bridgeport
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.
“The statute begins to run when the plaintiff discovers some form of actionable harm, not the fullest manifestation thereof.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The Connecticut Supreme Court] ha[s] construed the provision of article first, § 1, prohibiting exclusive public emoluments or privileges to apply to legislation preferring certain individuals over others when wholly unrelated to the public interest. No enactment creating a preference can withstand constitutional attack if the sole objective of the General Assembly is to grant personal gain or advantage to an individual. Its validity is contingent, at least in part, upon its furthering a public purpose; if enacted with that end in view, legislation can be sustained even though it may incidentally confer a direct benefit upon an individual or a class. Only if an act serves some public purpose can it be constitutionally sufficient .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the present case, we conclude that the undisputed fact that the family, until one and one-half years after learning of the decedent's suicide, did not start any investigation into the circumstances under which it had occurred constituted as a matter of law a failure to exercise reasonable care to discover the accrual of the wrongful death claim. The plaintiff has advanced no circumstances to justify such an inordinate delay.”
3 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.