Dolgin v. Dolgin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An agreement between parties or their attorneys relating to any matter in an action, other than one made between counsel in open court, is not binding upon a party unless it is in a writing subscribed by him or his attorney or reduced to the form of an order and entered.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Poling Transportation Corp. · Royal Bank & Trust Co. v. Pereira (In Re Lady Madonna Industries, Inc.)

2. “[t]o extend [the rule] beyond its meaning to cover purported agreements reached elsewhere is to extend [it] to an uncontrollable area [that] engenders issues of fact and credibility among the parties, the [judge] and the court clerk, a result not only perilous in ascertaining the facts, but erosive of the dignity of a court and its officers.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 5336 - Vernon Assoc. v. Brown, No. Cv 99 0071363 S (May 11, 2000) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 5712 - Vernon Associates v. Brown, No. Cv 99 0071363 S (May 11, 2000)

3. “who makes entries of judicial events in a docket, register, or minute book [as well as] a court reporter, who makes a record of all the proceedings.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 5336 - Vernon Assoc. v. Brown, No. Cv 99 0071363 S (May 11, 2000) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 5712 - Vernon Associates v. Brown, No. Cv 99 0071363 S (May 11, 2000)