Second Exeter Corp. v. Epstein’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Fuller v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1990), 119 Conn. App. 570 - Chase Home Finance, LLC v. Fequiere (2010)
63 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 Palmer v. Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. · State v. Parker · Leonard v. Bailwitz · Postemski v. Watrous · Ruda v. McKinstry
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] special defense must allege facts which are consistent with the plaintiff's statements, but show, notwithstanding, that the plaintiff has no cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any wrongful interference with these interests of the . . . trustee[s] is . . . a wrong to the trustee[s] and gives [them] a cause of action for redress or to prevent a continuance of the improper conduct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . Practice Book Section 164 distinguishes between those cases where a special defense is required in contradistinction to those where a simple denial, whether general or specific, is sufficient.”
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.