Bennett v. Lathrop’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1992
16 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 Wall v. Toomey · Davison v. Holden · Saugatuck Bridge Co. v. Town of Westport
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The omission in the complaint of the averment required by statute, that the plaintiff was the actual and bona fide owner of the several choses in action, was a formal defect of pleading which could only have been taken advantage of by demurrer. Wall v. Toomey, 52 Conn. 35 , 39 ; Trowbridge v. True, ibid, 190; Merwin v. Richardson, ibid, 223; Donaghue v. Gaffy, 53 id. 43 .”
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.