Moore v. Sergi’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Collum v. Chapin (1996), Gold v. Rowland (2010)
77 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 Griffin v. Nationwide Moving & Storage Co. · In Re KH · Malone v. Steinberg · Antonofsky v. Goldberg · Strimiska v. Yates
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the interest of justice, our courts have generally been most liberal in allowing amendments.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] plaintiff may not allege one cause of action and recover on another”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pleadings have their place in our system of jurisprudence. While they are not held to the strict and artificial standard that once prevailed, we still cling to the belief, even in these iconoclastic days, that no orderly administration of justice is possible without them. . . . The purpose of the complaint is to limit the issues to be decided at the trial of a case and is calculated to prevent surprise. . . . It is fundamental in our law that the right of a [party] to recover is limited to the allegations in his complaint. . . . A [party] may not allege one cause of action and recover on another. Facts found but not averred cannot be made the basis for a recovery. (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Moore v. Sergi , 38 Conn. App. 829 , 841-42 , 664 A.2d 795 (1995).”
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.