State v. Guckian’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Doe v. Marselle (1995), Concept Associates, Ltd. v. Board of Tax Review (1994)
2 district · 73 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 Winchester Woods Associates v. Planning & Zoning Commission · In Re KH · State v. Dukes · State v. Kish · Builders Service Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Commission
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we must focus upon its common understanding as expressed in the law and upon its dictionary meaning. . . . In the construction of the statutes, words and phrases shall be construed according to the commonly approved usage of the language . . . General Statutes § 1-1 (a).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“breach of any law of this state or any other state . . . for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or to a fine, or both, may be imposed,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Guckian , 226 Conn. 191 , 202 , 627 A.2d 407 (1993); Builders Service Corporation, Inc. v. Planning Zoning Commission , 208 Conn. 267 , 276 , 545 A.2d 530 (1988); Baerst v. State Board of Education , 34 Conn. App. 567 , 576 , 642 A.2d 761 , cert. denied, 230 Conn. 915 , 645 A.2d 1018 (1994). The word”
2 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.