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← 143 CONN 708 - Springfield-Dewitt Gardens, Inc. v. Wood

Springfield-Dewitt Gardens, Inc. v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

58
cited by 58 later decisions
2
states following
May 2002
most recently cited

58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Jackson v. Conland (1976), Gores v. Rosenthal (1961)

58 state decisions

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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 Schaefer v. O. K. Tool Co., Inc. · Craft Refrigerating MacHine Co. v. Quinnipiac Brewing Co. · Automotive Twins, Inc. v. Klein · Puleo v. Goldberg · Harris v. First National Bank & Trust 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The right of setoff, whether legal or equitable, has always been confined to rights of action arising from contract.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Opticare Centers v. Aaron, No. 0111491 (Feb. 24, 1994) · 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 12895 - Seguro v. Cummiskey, No. Cv 99-0591124 S (Sep. 12, 2001)
  2. “[t]he crucial issue is whether the subject matter of the counterclaim is so connected with the matter in controversy under the original complaint that its consideration is necessary for a full determination of the rights of the parties”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Telusmar v. Union Carbide Corporation, No. 30 62 36 (Jun. 1, 1993) · 1995 Conn. Super. Ct. 12780 - Eight Ball, Inc. v. Murray, No. Cv 95-0373448-S (Nov. 7, 1995)
  3. “"[i]n any case in which the defendant has either in law or in equity or in both a counter-claim, or right of setoff, against the plaintiff's demand, he may have the benefit of any such setoff or counter-claim by pleading the same as such in his answer, and demanding judgment accordingly; and the same shall be pleaded and replied to according to the rules governing complaints and answers. (See Gen. Stat., 52-139 to 52-142 .)."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1995 Conn. Super. Ct. 1071 - Neary v. McCarthy, No. 0063412 (Feb. 2, 1995)

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.