State v. Scribner’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2022
12 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 68 Conn. App. 862 - Bonan v. Goldring Home Inspections, Inc. · State v. Nesteriak · State v. Pope
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ontributory negligence is not a defense in a ... [prosecution for] negligent homicide [with a motor vehicle] ... unless such negligence on the part of the decedent is found to be the sole proximate cause of [the] death.”
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.