Cato v. Cato’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Thomason v. Chemical Bank (1995), 78 Conn. App. 456 - Hibner v. Bruening (2003)
40 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Shaffer v. Heitner · Gaudio v. Gaudio · Tolly v. Department of Human Resources · Frazer v. McGowan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`If notice by publication is to be utilized, the plaintiff must clearly and in detail set forth in affidavit form all the steps taken to determine whether notice in some other form could be given so that the court may make an independent determination of the adequacy of the notice.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of an order of notice is to ensure that the defendant actually received notice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]n a complaint for dissolution, annulment, legal separation or custody, if the defendant resides out of or is absent from the state or the whereabouts of the defendant is unknown to the plaintiff, any judge or clerk of the Supreme Court or of the Superior Court may make such order of notice as he deems reasonable. After notice has been given and proved to the court, the court may hear the complaint if it finds that the defendant has actually received notice of the complaint is pending. If it does not appear that the defendant has had such notice, the court may hear the case, or if it sees cause, order such further notice to be given as it deems reasonable and continue the complaint until the order is complied with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.