Blanchette v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 304 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Sherwood v. Danbury Hospital (2000), Witt v. St. Vincent's Medical Center (2000)
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 304 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 United Families of America v. Kendrick · Connell v. Colwell · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Catz v. Rubenstein · Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, 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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there has been evidence of either a special relationship between the parties giving rise to such a continuing duty or some later wrongful conduct of a defendant related to the prior act.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“The continuing course of conduct doctrine reflects the policy that, during an ongoing relationship, lawsuits are premature because specific tortious acts or omissions may be difficult to identify and may yet be remedied.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be tolled under . . . the continuing course of conduct doctrine, thereby allowing a plaintiff to commence his or her lawsuit at a later date.”
8 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.