Pack v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Hillman v. Town of Greenwich (1991), Lussier v. Department of Transportation (1994)
6 district · 106 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 Rogozinski v. American Food Service Equipment Corp. · Keenan v. Yale New Haven Hospital · World Fire & Marine Insurance v. Alliance Sandblasting Co. · Motiejaitis v. Johnson · Sharkiewicz v. Smith
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a substitution or entire change of party. . .”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“State of Connecticut Transportation Commission.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he change made by the amendment [does] not affect the identity of the party sought to be described, but merely [makes] correct the description of the real party sued . . . it [does] not substitute or bring in a new party.”
6 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.