Spearhead Construction Corp. v. Bianco’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Foley v. Huntington Co. (1996), Paulus v. LaSala (1999)
51 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 Garrity v. McCaskey · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Jones · Weisman v. Kaspar · Chmielewski v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Nor'easter Group, Inc. v. Colossale Concrete, Inc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under § 37-3a , an allowance of prejudgment interest turns on whether the detention of the money is or is not wrongful under the circumstances. . . and that the ultimate determination is one to be made in view of the demands of justice rather than through the application of any arbitrary rule.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he ultimate determination is one to be made in view of the demands of justice rather than through the application of any arbitrary rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“detention of money after it becomes payable.”
2 later decisions 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.