1 Conn. App. 519 - Cavallo v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably L & R Realty v. Connecticut National Bank (1999), Krondes v. O'Boy (1995)
2 district · 43 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 Bridgeport Pipe Engineering Co. v. DeMatteo Construction Co. · McCahill v. Town & Country Associates, Ltd. · Williams v. Bartlett · Randolph Construction Co. v. Kings East Corporation · Exxon Corp. v. Eagerton
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a basic principle of contract law that in order to form a binding contract there must be an offer and acceptance based on a mutual understanding by the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any qualification of or departure from the terms in which the offer was made by the offeror, however, invalidates the offer unless the offeror agrees to the qualification or departure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.