53 Conn. App. 42 - Twichell v. Guite’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
December 2004
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Loisel v. Rowe · Cranston Print Works Co. v. City of Cranston · Reynolds v. Vroom · In re Alexander V.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because courts are established to resolve actual controversies, before a claimed controversy is entitled to a resolution on the merits it must be justiciable. Justiciability recluires . . . that there be an actual controversy between or among the parties to the dispute: Courts exist for determination of actual and existing controversies, and under the law of this state the courts may not be used as a vehicle to obtain judicial opinions on points of law . . . [W]here the question presented is purely academic, we must refuse to entertain the appeal. . . . A case becomes moot when due to intervening circumstances a controversy between the parties no longer exists. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mootness presents a circumstance wherein the issue before the court has been resolved or has lost its significance because of a change in the condition of affairs between the parties. See 5 Am.Jur.2d, Appellate Review § 642 (1995).' Connecticut Natural Gas Corp. v. Dept. of Consumer Protection, 43 Conn. App. 196 , 203 , 682 A.2d 547 , cert. denied, 239 Conn. 938 , 684 A.2d 707 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have no strict technical meaning; they do not necessarily mean that the person to whom they are applied is an idiot, or non compos mentis; they merely indicate a relative, and not an absolute, lack of mental ability.' Id . Thus, `[a]n individual may be competent for one purpose but not for another.' Adoption of Kirk , 35 Mass. App. 533 , 537 , 623 N.E.2d 492 (1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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