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← 131 Conn. 155 - Sandelli v. Duffy

Sandelli v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis

1944

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Plumb v. Curtis · Cook v. Bradley · Hendricks v. Clemmons · Bank of Commerce v. McCarty · Linvitz v. Galeckis

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Something given before a promise is made, and therefore without reference to it . . . does not constitute legal consideration.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gilbert v. Namin, No. 117037 (Apr. 23, 1999) · 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 5495 - Polletta v. Colucci, No. Cv 95 0125416s (Sep. 17, 1996)

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.