Capers v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Babes v. Bennett (1998), Henriquez v. Allegre (2002)
79 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 Habetz v. Condon · Pratt v. Town of Old Saybrook · Vilcinskas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Baskin's Appeal from Probate · Ross Realty Corp. v. Surkis
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion to strike is the proper means of attacking a pleading that on its face is legally insufficient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A motion to dismiss properly attacks the jurisdiction of the court, essentially asserting that the plaintiff cannot as a matter of law and CT Page 15597 fact state a cause of action that should be heard by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he provision is remedial in its character. It was passed to avoid hardships arising from an unbending enforcement of limitation statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.