45 Conn. App. 722 - State v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

December 2020

most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably McCoy v. Commissioner of Public Safety (2011), Grasso v. Zoning Board of Appeals of the Groton Long Point Ass'n (2002)

42 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 Cobbledick v. United States · Griffin v. Wisconsin · D'Ulisse-Cupo v. Board of Directors of Notre Dame High School · Rivera v. United States · State v. Smith

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Crest Pontiac Cadillac, Inc. v. Hadley, 239 Conn. 437 , 445-46 , 685 A.2d 670 (1996). A statutory provision of this type directs what is to be done but does not invalidate any action taken for failure to comply. See Katz v. Commissioner of Revenue Services, supra, 617.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 145 - Meyers v. Troncale, No. Cv 00 0439881 S (Jan. 2, 2002) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 10217 - Blue Point v. Inland Wetlands W., No. Cv-99-0087861-S (Aug. 17, 2000)
“[I]f . . . no language . . . expressly invalidates any action taken after noncompliance with the statutory provisions, the statute should be construed as directory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 15409 - Spicer v. Groton Baa, No. Cv00 0555218s (Dec. 6, 2002) · 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 2448 - McManus-pesce v. Miller, No. Cv00-0595198 (Feb. 9, 2001)
“failure to complete satisfactorily the period of pretrial probation requires that the case be returned to the docket for trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 5085 - State v. Blair, No. Mv21- (Apr. 12, 2000) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 4395 - State v. Blair, No. Mv21 (Apr. 12, 2000)

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.