Pettus v. Gault’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Rossignol v. Danbury School of Aeronautics, Inc. (1967), Royce v. Town of Westport (1981)
1 district · 27 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 Mitchell v. Smith · Waterbury Savings Bank v. Lawler · Gray v. Finch · Frink v. Branch · Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Security 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant voluntarily files an amended or substitute answer after a former one has been adjudged insufficient on demurrer, he waives all right to except to the action of the court in sustaining the demurrer to the first answer.”
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.