Stefanoni v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 108 Conn. App. 283 - Sanders v. Dias (2008), Caminis v. Troy (2011)
30 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 Soares v. Vestal · Peterson v. Town of Oxford · Il Giardino, LLC v. Belle Haven Land Co. · Shelter Harbor Fire District v. Vacca · In Re TE
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he determination of the intent behind language in a deed, considered in the light of all the surrounding circumstances, presents a question of law on which our scope of review is ... plenary.... Thus, when faced with a question regarding the construction of language in deeds, the reviewing court does not give the customary deference to the trial court's factual inferences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining the character and extent of an easement created by deed, the ordinary import of the language will be accepted as indicative of the intention of the parties, unless there is something in the situation of the property or the surrounding circumstances that calls for a different interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The principles guiding our construction of land conveyance instruments, [however] are well established. The construction of a deed ... presents a question of law which we have plenary power to resolve.”
1 later decision 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.