DiSimone v. Vitello’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Batory v. Bajor (1990), Noethe v. Noethe (1989)
80 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 Steve Viglione Sheet Metal Co. v. Sakonchick · Broaca v. Broaca · Van Mecklenburg v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. · Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Cole · Yanow v. Teal Industries, 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is axiomatic [however] that the right to move to open and vacate a judgment assumes that the party who is to exercise the right be given the opportunity to know that there is a judgment to open. . . . [F]or the purpose of opening a default judgment pursuant to General Statutes 52-212 , 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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the four month period has expired, the CT Page 2382 court no longer has jurisdiction to make other than clerical modifications or corrections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the parties have consented or where the court has continuing jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.