13 Conn. App. 101 - DeVita v. Esposito’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Hanover Insurance v. Fireman's Fund Insurance (1991), Sharp v. Wyatt, Inc. (1993)
81 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 ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Gionfriddo v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. · Giglio v. Connecticut Light & Power Co. · Johnson v. Flammia · Dreier v. Upjohn Co.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who claims title by adverse possession is claiming that although he does not have record title, his proof of possession which is adverse, open, notorious and continuous for the entire statutory period entitles him, in an action to quiet title to a judgment of ownership.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] party may plead in the alternative, both sets of allegations appearing in the same pleading. . . . [A] plaintiff is allowed to advance alternative and even inconsistent theories of liability against one or more defendants in a single complaint. . . . While alternative and inconsistent pleading is permitted, there is a limitation of good faith upon its use. Case law suggests that alternative pleading is justified only when the pleader does not know all the facts necessary to make an election.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder Practice Book 94 and 137, a plaintiff is allowed to advance alternative and even inconsistent theories of liability against one or more defendants in a single complaint.”
3 later decisions 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.