Fleming v. Garnett’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen (1995), Elliott v. City of Waterbury (1998)
2 district · 182 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Roth v. United States · Petyan v. Ellis · Dunham v. Dunham · Berry v. Loiseau
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a strong presumption of constitutionality,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he [common-law] rule in Connecticut, also known as the American Rule, is that attorney's fees and ordinary expenses and burdens of litigation are not allowed to the successful party absent a contractual or statutory exception.... Because we must respect the legislative prerogative of choosing the special circumstances under which [attorney's fees] awards may be made ... we require a clear expression of the legislature's intent to create a statutory exception [to the rule].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In substance, the trial court charged that a possessor of land has a duty to conduct its business operations in a manner that does not create an unreasonable risk of physical harm to those outside of the premises; (citations omitted) and that this duty may include the duty to warn invitees of conditions that pose reasonably foreseeable dangers to the public.”
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.