Ossen v. Wanat’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Young v. Young (1999), Durkin Village Plainville, LLC v. Cunningham (2006)
26 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 Fellows v. Martin · Jo-Mark Sand & Gravel Co. v. Pantanella · Webb v. Ambler · Prevedini v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Eamiello v. Liberty Mobile Home Sales, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e agree with the trial court's conclusion that the constitutional issues that the defendants attempted to raise `are far beyond the scope of the statutory action that is before the court'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of summary process proceedings is to permit the landlord to recover possession on termination of a lease without suffering the delay, loss and expense to which he may be subjected under a common-law action. The process is intended to be summary and is designed to provide an expeditious remedy to the landlord seeking possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is an elementary rule of construction that all sections of an act relating to the same subject matter should be considered together. . . . Insofar as possible the separate effect of each individual part or section of an act is made consistent with the whole.”
1 later decision 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.