State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 113 Conn. App. 404 - Silverstein v. Laschever (2009), 180 Conn. App. 331 - Bassford v. Bassford (2018)
32 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 Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners · Lees v. Middlesex Insurance · Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc. · Baskin's Appeal from Probate · Kerin v. Stangle
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing any statute, we seek to ascertain and give effect to the apparent intent of the legislature . . . . It is an axiom of statutory construction that legislative intent is to be determined by an analysis of the language actually used in the legislation . . . . [W]hen the language of the statute is plain and unambiguous, we need look no further than the words themselves because we assume that the language expresses the legislature's intent . . . . A statute does not become ambiguous because the parties argue its meaning differently . . . . The legislative intent is to be found, not in what the legislature intended to say, but in the meaning of what it did say . . . . We must construe a statute without reference to whether we feel that it might be improved by adding to it or interpreting it differently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he function of the Superior Court in appeals from a Probate Court is to take jurisdiction of the order or decree appealed from and to try that issue de novo. . . . Thereafter, upon consideration of all evidence presented on the appeal which would have been admissible in the probate court, the Superior Court should exercise the same power of judgment which the probate court possessed and decide the appeal as an original proposition unfettered by, and ignoring, the result reached in the probate court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appeal from a Probate Court to the Superior Court is not an ordinary civil action. . . . In ruling on a probate appeal, the Superior Court exercises the powers, not of a constitutional court of general or common law jurisdiction, but of a Probate Court.”
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.