Nelson v. Charlesworth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2024
21 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 Kim v. Magnotta · In re Jonathan M. · Celanese Fiber v. Pic Yarns, Inc. · Shelter Harbor Fire District v. Vacca · Lacic v. Tomas
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section] 52-212a provides in relevant part: 'Unless otherwise provided by law and except in such cases in which the court has continuing jurisdiction, a civil judgment or decree rendered in the Superior Court may not be opened or set aside unless a motion to open or set aside is filed within four months following the date on which it was rendered or passed. ...' Practice Book § 17-43 contains similar language. Courts have interpreted the phrase, '[u]nless otherwise provided by law,' as preserving the common-law authority of a court to open a judgment after the four month period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether proceeding under the common law or a statute, the action of a trial court in granting or refusing an application to open a judgment is, generally, within the judicial discretion of such court, and its action will not be disturbed on appeal unless it clearly appears that the trial court has abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, the granting of a motion to open a prior judgment is not a final judgment, and, therefore, not immediately appealable. ... Our Supreme Court, however, has carved out an exception to that rule where a colorable claim is made that the trial court lacked the power to open a judgment.”
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.