Fontaine v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 102 Conn. App. 697 - Angiolillo v. Buckmiller (2007), 109 Conn. App. 332 - Jimenez v. DeRosa (2008)
28 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 State v. Sharpe · State v. Fritz · Peerless Insurance v. Nault · Jacobsen v. Jacobsen · Jaconski v. AMF, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile it may have been his mistaken perception of what steps he had to take that prevented him from defending, his error does not constitute a demonstration of mistake, accident or other reasonable cause that prevented him from defending the plaintiff's case. The defendant did not sustain his burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We have indicated that for the purpose of opening a default judgment pursuant to General Statutes § 52-212 , 3 a delay in notifying the defendant of the judgment would merely extend the time in which the defendant could move to set aside the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The design of these rules being to facilitate business and advance justice, they will be interpreted liberally in any case where it shall be manifest that a strict adherence to them will work surprise or injustice.”
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.