Evon v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 district · 540 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 583 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners (1991)
5 federal appellate · 36 district · 540 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 Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority · Shore v. Town of Stonington · Gauvin v. City of New Haven · Sestito v. City of Groton · Fraser v. Henninger
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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The immunity from liability for the performance of discretionary acts by a municipal employee is subject to three exceptions or circumstances under which liability may attach even though the act was discretionary: first, where the circumstances make it apparent to the public officer that his or her failure to act would be likely to subject an identifiable person to imminent harm . . . second, where a statute specifically provides for a cause of action against a municipality or municipal official for failure to enforce certain laws . . . and third, where the alleged acts involve malice, wantonness or intent to injure, rather than negligence.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage“The word `ministerial' refers to a duty which is to be performed in a prescribed manner without the exercise of judgment or discretion.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he risk of fire implicates a wide range of factors that can occur, if at all, at some unspecified time in the future.”
33 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.