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← 226 CONN 191 - State v. Guckian

State v. Guckian’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
1
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “(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.