McIntosh v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 94 Conn. App. 103 - Manifold v. Ragaglia (2006), Cox v. Aiken (2006)
33 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 Miller v. Egan · Amore v. Frankel · Serrano v. Burns · Hall v. Burns · State v. Holliday
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The state] is not bound to make the roads absolutely safe for travel.... Rather, the test is whether ... the state has exercised reasonable care to make and keep such roads in a reasonably safe condition for the reasonably prudent traveler.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]o the extent that there is a question in the present case as to whether the connection to the roadbed is sufficient ... that is a question for the trier of fact”
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.