Girard v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Great Country Bank v. Pastore (1997), Stone v. Pattis (2013)
2 district · 145 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 Batick v. Seymour · Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Carriage Lane Associates · D.H.R. Construction Co. v. Donnelly · Berry v. Loiseau · Forbes v. Ballaro
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] claim that an action is barred by . . . the statute of limitations must be pleaded as a special defense, not raised by a motion to strike.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a statute creating the cause of action on which the plaintiff relies fixes the time within which the cause of action must be asserted.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“Facts that are not alleged in a complaint may be added to the procedural mix . . . in a motion for summary judgment, whereas they cannot be considered in a motion to strike. On a motion for summary judgment, the questions are whether there is any material fact in issue, and, if not, whether the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of CT Page 4881 law. The key difference between the two motions is that, when considering a motion for summary judgment, facts in addition to those asserted in the complaint can form the basis for an argument that there is no material fact in dispute that would prevent judgment as a matter of law.”
3 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.