Connell v. Colwell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 1,175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,200 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Gurliacci v. Mayer (1991), Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 1,175 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 Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Alder v. United States · United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Burns v. Hartford Hospital · Batick v. Seymour
Cited together with Fogarty v. Rashaw · Hammer v. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Co. · D.H.R. Construction Co. v. Donnelly · Batick v. Seymour · Burns v. Hartford Hospital
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 1,200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding a motion for summary judgment, the trial court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
259 later decisions quote this exact passage“incumbent upon the party opposing summary judgment to establish a factual predicate from which it can be determined, as a matter of law, that a genuine issue of material fact exists.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[m]ere assertions of fact . . . are insufficient to establish the existence of a material fact and, therefore, cannot refute evidence properly presented to the court under Practice Book Sec. 380.'”
26 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.