Macy v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2022
22 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 Riccardi v. Rivers · In Re DC · Mack v. LaValley · LaSalle National Bank v. Freshfield Meadows, LLC · Mack v. LaValley
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“burden remained on the plaintiff to `demonstrate that the defendants' negligence was the proximate cause of [his] injuries.' Mack v. LaValley , [ 55 Conn. App. 150 , 162 , 738 A.2d 718 , cert. denied, 251 Conn. 928 , 742 A.2d 363 (1999)]; see also Clay v. Teach , 37 Conn. App. 556 , 559 , 656 A.2d 1065 ("[e]ven though the defendants were found liable . . . the burden of proof as to the amount of damages sustained was upon the plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“), cert. denied, 234 Conn. 902 , 659 A.2d 1205 (1995). The plaintiff apparently failed to carry her burden in the eyes of the jurors, who were the ultimate arbiters of that disputed issue. See Mack v. LaValley , supra , 162; see also Clay v. Teach , supra , 560.”
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.