1 Conn. App. 138 - Brock v. Cavanaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Currie v. Marano (1988), Rapin v. Nettleton (1998)
48 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 Bozzi v. Bozzi · Kurzatkowski v. Kurzatkowski · Kievman v. Grevers
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Laches consists of two elements. First, there must have been a delay that was inexcusable, and, second, that delay must have prejudiced the defendant. . . . The mere lapse of time does not constitute laches . . . unless it results in prejudice to the defendant . . . as where, for example, the defendant is led to change his position with respect to the matter in question.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Laches consists of two elements. First there must have been a measurable delay by one party, and second, that delay must have prejudiced the other party. The mere lapse of time does not constitute laches unless it resulted in prejudice to the plaintiff, as where, for example, the plaintiff was led to change his position with respect to the matter in question."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equitable estoppel is the effect of the voluntary conduct of a party whereby he is absolutely precluded, both at law and in equity, from asserting rights which might perhaps have otherwise existed . . . as against another person, who has in good faith relied upon such CT Page 4308 conduct and has been led thereby to change his position for the worse.”
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.