Colaluca v. Ives’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Stanley Works v. New Britain Redevelopment Agency (1967), Alemany v. Commissioner of Transportation (1990)
83 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 Town of Winchester v. Cox · Knapp v. New Haven Road Construction Co. · Colonial Discount Co. v. Avon Motors, Inc. · Baurer v. Devenis · Salgreen Realty Co. v. Ives
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question of what is fair compensation is an equitable rather than a strictly legal technical one. The paramount law intends that the condemnee shall be put in as good condition pecuniarily as he would have been had the property not been taken.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plaintiff claims that the commissioner could not withdraw the condemnation proceeding because, under General Statutes § 13-145, the “taking” of the property was complete upon the filing of the certificate, the rights of both parties thereupon became vested, and discontinuance was thereafter barred as a matter of law. In other words, the plaintiff claims that when the “taking” was complete, which she claims was at the moment of the filing of the certificate, she had a full right to damages under the condemnation procedure, pursuant to the rule of cases such as Bohannan v. Stamford, 80 Conn. 107, 109 , 67 A. 372 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even if the trial court was technically in error in allowing the withdrawal of the condemnation certificate and the abandonment of the condemnation proceedings, the error was harmless, since the plaintiff, under the specific performance action, was required to do only what she was equitably obligated to do, and she received the full amount which she could equitably have obtained under the condemnation proceeding had it been pursued____”
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.