Wright v. Hutt’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably McCann Real Equities Series XXII, LLC v. David McDermott Chevrolet, Inc. (2006), 87 Conn. App. 401 - Monetary Funding Group, Inc. v. Pluchino (2005)
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 Telesco v. Telesco · Kirby v. Planning Board of Review · Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n · Burke v. Avitabile · State v. Bova
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.
“What is in issue is determined by the pleadings and these must be in writing. . . . Once the pleadings have been filed, the evidence proffered must be relevant to the issues raised therein. . . . A judgment upon an issue not pleaded would not merely be erroneous, but it would be void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principle that a plaintiff may rely only upon what he has alleged is basic. . . . It is fundamental in our law that the right of a plaintiff to recover is limited to the allegations of his complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decision to preclude a party from introducing expert testimony is within the discretion of the trial 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.