Goodwin v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Fischel v. TKPK, Ltd. (1994), People's Bank v. Bilmor Building Corp. (1992)
2 district · 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 Texas v. Brown · Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Solomon v. Aberman · Three S. Development Co. v. Santore
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.
“". . . The hearing in probable cause for the issuance of a prejudgment remedy is not contemplated to be a full scale trial on the merits of the plaintiff's claim. The plaintiff does not have to establish that CT Page 753 he will prevail, only that there is probable cause to sustain the validity of the claim. Ledgebrook Condominium Assn. Inc. v. Lusk Corporation, 172 Conn. 577 , 584 , 376 A.2d 60 (1977). The court's role in such a hearing is to determine probable success by weighing probabilities.". . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The legal idea of probable cause is a bona fide belief in the existence of the facts essential under the law for the action and 10 Conn. App. 621 such as would warrant a man of ordinary caution, prudence and judgment, under the circumstances, in entertaining it.' Wall v. Toomey, 52 Conn. 35 , 36 (1884). Proof of `probable cause,' as a condition of obtaining a prejudgment remedy, is not as demanding as proof by a fair preponderance of the evidence. Thus, in Wall v. Toomey, 52 Conn. 35 , 36 . The court's role in such a hearing is to determine probable success by weighing probabilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as that term is used in our prejudgment remedy statutes, in Three S. Development Co. v. Santore, 193 Conn. 174 , 175-76 , 474 A.2d 795 (1984), the court stated:”
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.