Viera v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Orr (2009), Wyszomierski v. Siracusa (2009)
2 district · 103 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 Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co. · Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. · Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Connecticut v. Porter · Blanchette v. Barrett
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]ypically, the omission of a word otherwise used in the statutes suggests that the legislature intended a different meaning for the alternat[ive] term”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n expert may testify in the form of an opinion and give reasons therefor, provided sufficient facts are shown as the foundation for the expert's opinion.... [A]n expert may obtain information at trial by having factual testimony summarized in the form of a hypothetical question at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]hen a statute is in derogation of common law ... it should receive a strict construction and is not to be extended, modified, repealed or enlarged in its scope by the mechanics of [statutory] construction”
2 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.