Conti v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. Town of Groton (1998), Lundborg v. Lawler (2001)
98 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 Halpern v. Board of Education · Park City Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care · Henry F. Raab Connecticut, Inc. v. J. W. Fisher Co. · 1 Conn. App. 439 - Southland Corp. v. Vernon · Walsh v. Gowing
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule does not apply . . . when the two actions are for different purposes or ends or involve different issues.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“that when two separate lawsuits are `virtually alike' the second action is amenable to dismissal by the court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A court] does not have the right to raise, sua sponte, the prior pending action rule when the moving party has not done so.”
3 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.