30 Conn. Super. Ct. 374 - Toms v. Settipane’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 2000
3 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 Loewenberg v. Wallace · American Brass Co. v. Serra · Schroeder v. Taylor · Stevens v. Smoker · Anderson v. DeVries
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously the grantees were expected to go upon Glenwood Drive and use it for travel. Construing the deed otherwise would mean that the FPLC, the plaintiffs predecessor in title, had an easement to nowhere. It would mean that the FPLC could only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“together with a right of way over a footpath to the beach on Long Island Sound, along other land of the grantor lying immediately southerly of said Lot 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is preposterous . . . to construe the deed . . . as creating an easement upon the beach limited to the width of the footpath, eighteen inches.”
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.