Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman, Inc. v. EI Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. (1998), Ramos v. Town of Vernon (2000)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 212 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 Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Bravman · Torosyan v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen · Nor'easter Group, Inc. v. Colossale Concrete, 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o implicate the equal protection clauses under the state and federal constitutions . . . it is necessary that the state statute in question, either on its face or in practice, treat persons standing in the same relation to it differently.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“General Statutes §§ 49-41 through 49-43 , which provide for furnishing of bonds guaranteeing payment (payment bonds) on public works construction projects, were enacted to protect workers and materials suppliers on public works projects who cannot avail themselves of otherwise available remedies such as mechanic's liens.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“any person who supplied materials or performed subcontracting work not included on a requisition or estimate who has not received full payment for such materials or work within sixty days after the date such materials were supplied or such work was performed, may enforce his right to payment under the bond by serving notice to the contractor named as principal in the bond . . . within one hundred eighty days after the date such materials were supplied or such work was performed .”
4 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.