Bruno v. Whipple’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bennett v. Automobile Insurance · Lawson v. Whitey's Frame Shop · 87 Conn. App. 401 - Monetary Funding Group, Inc. v. Pluchino · 106 Conn. App. 379 - Weiner v. Clinton · Lyons v. Nichols
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to a contract with herself and Bruno to build the new home, had breached the contract ... by conspiring with Bruno to launder his money through the project, and thus to deprive her of fair, just and reasonable alimony and division of assets in connection with the impending dissolution of her marriage. On that score, the plaintiff alleged, more particularly, that by December, 2005, when Bruno initiated marital dissolution proceedings against her, construction of the new home was nearly complete for what by then was the total sum of approximately $1,800,000. Thereafter, however, from December, 2005, to January, 2006, and from May, 2006, to July, 2006, Bruno paid [the defendant] additional sums totaling approximately $2,600,000, all purportedly for expenditures on the project that she did not authorize.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is a fundamental principle of contract law that liability for breach of contract is confined to contracting parties or those who consent to be bound by them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of fair, just and reasonable alimony and division of assets in connection with the dissolution of [her] marriage to Bruno.”
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.