Fowler v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Wellington Systems, Inc. v. Redding Group, Inc. (1998), 580 F. Supp. 2d 191 - Berman v. SUGO LLC (2008)
2 district · 40 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 Downs v. National Casualty Co. · Connecticut Co. v. DIVISION 425 · Zullo v. Smith · Klein v. Chatfield · Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. v. Chesapeake Terra Cotta 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the parties intended legally to bind themselves prior to the execution of a formal contract is to be determined from (1) the language used, (2) the circumstances surrounding the transaction, and (3) the purpose that they sought to accomplish . . . (Citation omitted.) . . . A consideration of these factors enables a court to determine if the informal contract . . ., is enforceable or merely an intention to negotiate a contract in the future. (Citation omitted.) Fowler v. Weiss , 15 Conn. App. 690 , 693 (1988). Based on the evidence this court is satisfied that the Letter of Intent was just what the term suggests; a document evidencing an "intent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plain meaning of supersede is `[t]o make obsolete, inferior, or outmoded ... to make void ... annul, override ... to make superfluous or unnecessary ... to take the place of ... to take precedence over...'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The circumstances surrounding the making of the contract, the purposes which the parties sought to accomplish and their motives cannot prove an intent contrary to the plain meaning of the language used.”
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.