Ruddock v. Burrowes’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Peabody N.E., Inc. v. Department of Transportation (1999), Meadowbrook Ctr., Inc. v. Buchman (2018)
173 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. · Miller v. United Technologies Corp. · Nolan v. Borkowski · Batick v. Seymour
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n appropriate cases, a dismissal entered pursuant to [Practice Book § 14-3 ] would not bar a subsequent action brought under the authority of § 52-592 . . . . Disciplinary dismissals do not, in all cases, demonstrate the occurrence of misconduct so egregious as to bar recourse to § 52-592 . . . . Whether the statute applies cannot be decided in a factual vacuum. To enable a plaintiff to meet the burden of establishing the right to avail himself or herself of the statute, a plaintiff must be afforded an opportunity to make a factual showing that the prior dismissal was a `matter of form' in the sense that the plaintiff's noncompliance with a court order occurred in circumstances such as mistake, inadvertence or excusable neglect. See General Statutes § 52-212 .”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the burden of showing the absence of any genuine issue of material facts . . .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mistake, inadvertence or excusable neglect”
7 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.