37 Conn. Super. Ct. 534 - Steinegger v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2001
10 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 Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Bozzi v. Bozzi · Dupuis v. Submarine Base Credit Union, Inc. · Pet Car Products, Inc. v. Barnett
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ow that a one-tier Superior Court system has been created, it would be impractical and a waste of judicial time to require a defendant in a summary process action to bring a separate suit in the same court in order to raise his equitable defenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. Pilewski
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.