Schaffer v. Lindy’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Citino v. Redevelopment Agency (1998), Stuart v. Stuart (2010)
62 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 Barber v. Page · Alaimo v. Royer · 2 Conn. App. 294 - Kavarco v. T. J. E., Inc. · Dacey v. Connecticut Bar Assn. · DeMilo v. City of West Haven
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[C]lear and convincing proof is a standard frequently imposed in civil cases where the wisdom of experience has demonstrated the need for greater certainty as where this high standard is required, to sustain claims which have serious consequences or far-reaching effects on individuals, to prove willful, wrongful and unlawful acts or justify an exceptional judicial remedy, or to circumvent established legal safeguards."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person who steals any property of another, or knowingly receives and conceals personal property, shall pay the owner treble his damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an attempt [must] be made to depose a witness ... as a precondition to the witness being deemed unavailable.”
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.