Gauger v. Frankl’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “our fundamental objective is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the legislature. . . . In determining the intent of a statute, we look to the words of the statute itself, to the legislative history and circumstances surrounding its enactment, to the legislative policy it was designed to implement, and to its relationship to existing legislation and common law principles governing the same general subject matter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Greenwich Hosp. v. Commissioner of Rev., No. Cv99 0498326s (Jul. 30, 2001)

2. “Payments pursuant to § 7-433c constitute `special compensation, or even an outright bonus, to qualifying policemen and firemen. . . . [T]he outright bonus provided by the statute is that the claimant is not required to prove that the heart disease [or hypertension] is causally connected to his employment, which he would ordinarily have to establish in order to receive benefits pursuant to the [act].'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 6119 - Deniro v. City of Bridgeport, No. Cv96 033 61 01 S (May 18, 2000) Ct Page 6120

3. “We begin our analysis with the text of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 14177 - Frumento v. City of West Haven, No. 417928 (Nov. 17, 2000)