Connolly v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1993
2 district · 7 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 Milliken v. Meyer · Reynolds v. Stockton · Standard Oil Company of Indiana v. State of Missouri · Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. · Nongard v. Burlington County Bridge Commission
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To the extent that the members of the selling syndicate or their nominees have an interest therein, the entire transaction in all its ramifications is rescinded and they shall repay to the bridge commission the sum of $3,050,347 which represents the gross profit which they received from the sale of their stock in the Burlington-Bristol Bridge Company. The obligation to repay this sum shall be both joint and several as to Bell, Hanff, Keteham, Nongard and Powell, but shall be several only as against the remaining sellers in the amounts they each received, specifically: Rowland H. Murray—$76,258.68; Thomas J. Christensen—$305,034.70; Irene E. Powell—$122,013.88; Paul A. Powell—$122,013.88; Mildred P. Meader—$122,013.88; Rickard W. Parks and Gladys A. Parks-— $129,939.75. Judgment in the sums indicated, together with interest thereon from October 22, 1948, will accordingly be entered against these defendants and in favor of the bridge commission.” (8 N. J. at page 501)”
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.