Peyton v. Werhane’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably State v. Clemente (1974), Carten v. Carten (1966)
2 district · 27 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 Carpenter v. Winn · Jones v. . Reilly · Downie v. Nettleton · President of the Middletown Bank v. Russ · Skinner v. Judson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the claim of the plaintiff as to the character and extent of transactions between herself and her husband would be substantially fortified if. by means of the business records of her husband, it could be proved that moneys paid by her husband or his nominees and CT Page 2757 evidenced by checks, in fact constituted loans by the plaintiff to her husband, and that moneys paid by him to her or into the joint accounts or otherwise were paid with the intention of reimbursing her in part for her loans, and if thereby the extent of the transactions could be accurately established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The power to enforce discovery is one of the original and inherent powers of a court of equity.' Peyton v. Werhane, 126 Conn. 382, 388 , 11 A.2d 800 ; Skinner v. Judson., 8 Conn. 528, 533 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clemente
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.