Lebowitz v. McPike’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1972), Morris v. Costa (1978)
2 district · 28 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 Louisiana v. Wood · Franks v. Lockwood · Schleicher v. Schleicher · Farr v. Newman · Neely v. White
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Its office is . . . to show what equity and good conscience require, under the particular circumstances of the case . . . . Lebowitz v. McPike, 157 Conn. 235 , 243 , 253 A.2d 1 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] failure of consideration . . . would be a complete legal defense to an action on the contract itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]utual promises must be capable of performance, and the performance of a promise must be possible.”
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.