34 Conn. Super. Ct. 7 - Watson v. Gradzik’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1996
6 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 Kellems v. Brown · Adams v. Rubinow · Amsel v. Brooks · Whitfield v. Empire Mutual Insurance · General Insurance Company of America v. Faulkner
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court cannot accept the defendants’ premise that the fundamental right to bear and raise children has been interfered with merely because a parent is held responsible for his child’s torts. With the right to bear and raise children comes the responsibility to see that one’s children are properly raised so that the rights of other people are protected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“). Pursuant to General Statutes § 52-572 (a), the parents or guardian of any unemancipated minor, who wilfully or maliciously causes damage to any property or injury to any person,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One reason is to deter juvenile delinquency by placing upon the parent the obligation to control his minor child so as to prevent him from intentionally harming 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.