Cook v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 52 later decisions

states following

May 2011

most recently cited

52 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Grady v. Town of Somers (2009), 116 Conn. App. 28 - Himmelstein v. Town of Windsor (2009)

52 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

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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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“§ 52-557n to provide that an action under the highway defect statute, § 13a-149 , is a plaintiffs exclusive remedy against a municipality or other political subdivision for damages resulting from injury to any person or property by means of a defective road or bridge. It also, therefore, precludes a joint action seeking such damages against a municipality and its officer pursuant to § 7-465 (a); 3 otherwise, the proviso in § 52-557n would be stripped of all meaning, for § 7-465 (a) would permit a plaintiff to reach the result forbidden by § 52-557n : the imposition of tort liability on a municipality for a highway defect claim.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Crabtree v. Town of Greenwich, No. Cv 91 285815 (Dec. 30, 1992) · Morninstar Robishaw v. N. Eng. C.R.R., No. X07 Cv99 0071617s (Jul. 14, 2000)
“[W]e hold that a common law action for nuisance is barred by § 52-557n and affirm the judgment striking the complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 1995 Conn. Super. Ct. 5962 - Springer v. Town of Brookfield, No. 31 70 08 (Jun. 19, 1995) · 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 1909 - Murano v. City of New Haven, No. 373705 (Feb. 3, 1998)
“`the entire content of subdivision section 52-557n (a)(1) not merely subdivision (a)(1)(C),' to which its application [is] CT Page 11732 clearest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Crabtree v. Town of Greenwich, No. Cv 91 285815 (Dec. 30, 1992)

How this case has been treated — in progress

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