Stokes v. Lyddy’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Rockwell v. Quintner (2006), 120 Conn. App. 298 - Fiorelli v. Gorsky (2010)
53 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Fogarty v. Rashaw · Shore v. Town of Stonington · Pion v. Southern New England Telephone Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere statements of legal conclusions or that an issue of fact does exist are not sufficient to raise the issue . . . It is not enough that one opposing a motion for summary judgment claims that there is a genuine issue of material fact; some evidence showing the existence of such an issue must be presented in the counter affidavit . . . Pursuant to Practice Book § 17-46 , [s]upporting and opposing affidavits shall be made on personal knowledge, shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence, and shall show affirmatively that the affiant is competent to testify as to the matters stated therein . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A landlord is subject to liability for physical harm to persons outside the leased property caused by activities of the tenant or others on the leased property after the landlord transfers possession only if: (1) the landlord at the time of the lease consented to the activity or knew that it would be carried on; and (2) the landlord knew or had reason to know that it would unavoidably involve an unreasonable risk, or that special precautions necessary to safety would not be taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at the time of the initial leasing of the premises to the tenant, the landlord knew both of the prospective presence of the dog and of its vicious propensities”
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.