30 Conn. Super. Ct. 385 - Custer v. Bonadies’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1997
17 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It hardly seems the time for the Connecticut courts to accept an outdated rule of common law requiring married women to adopt their spouse’s surnames contrary to our English common-law heritage and to engraft that rule as an exception to the recognized right of a person to assume any name that he or she wishes to use.” (P. 641)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When a woman on her marriage assumes, as she usually does in England . . . the surname of her husband in substitution for her father’s name, it may be said that she acquires a new name by repute .... The change of name is in fact, rather than in law, a consequence of the marriage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is a well-established principle of common law that a person is free to adopt and use any name that he or she sees fit if it is not done for any fraudulent purpose and does not infringe upon the rights of others.”
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.