Connolly v. Connolly’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2020
8 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 MP ASSOCIATES v. Liberty · Home Builders Ass'n of Maine, Inc. v. Town of Eliot · Commerce Bank and Trust Co. v. Dworman · Shaw v. Packard
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Protection order; consent agreement. The court, after a hearing and upon a finding that the defendant has committed the alleged abuse, may grant a protective order or, upon making that finding, approve a consent agreement to bring about a cessation of abuse. This subsection does not preclude the parties from voluntarily requesting a consent agreement without a finding of abuse. The court may enter a finding that the defendant represents a credible threat to the physical safety of the plaintiff or a minor child residing in the plaintiffs household.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. L'HEUREUX v. Michaud
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.