Boardman v. Burlingame’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Defelice v. Zoning Board of Appeals (1943), Doe v. Institute of Living, Inc. (1978)
62 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 Mahoney v. Beatman · Tuohey v. Martinjak · Yale University v. Town of New Haven · Donovan v. Davis · Sharkey v. Skilton
Most-quoted passages
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“Reasonable men could come to no other conclusion on the evidence than that the Retreat is a charitable institution and it was entitled to the substance of the charge requested. The test applied in Canterbury School Inc. v. New Milford, 111 Conn. 203 , 149 A. 685 , as suggested by the plaintiff, referred to the sense in which the Legislature used a carefully drawn definition of a tax exempt institution. If this test is insisted on, it appears that this institution is tax exempt. The question of tax exemption is not in issue here, however, and the testimony is uncontradicted that the Retreat is organized and operated for the public welfare without profit to itself or any individual. The mere fact that some patients pay for part or all of their care does not destroy its charitable character. Yale University v. New Haven, 71 Conn. 316 , 328 , 42 A. 87 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the wrong complained of is fraud and deceit. . . . It is a cause of action for a tort. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The President and Directors of the Hartford Retreat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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