Skakel v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Nesteriak (2000), State v. Cyr (2000)
2 district · 33 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Cort v. Ash · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Rowe v. Godou · Rivera v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Supreme Court has repeatedly stated; however, that § 10-3 (a) is merely directory and not mandatory. . . . We have excused noncompliance with § 10-3 (a) where the record discloses that neither the opposing party nor the trial court [was] confused or misled as to the statutory basis of the party's claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen any claim made in a complaint . . . is grounded on a statute, the statute shall be specifically identified by its number.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court improperly failed to apply the federal administrative regulations, which afford confidentiality to alcohol patient records, that were in effect at the time he received treatment at Elan.”
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.