Fattibene v. Kealey’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

101

cited by 101 later decisions

states following

January 2022

most recently cited

99 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Schoonmaker v. Lawrence Brunoli, Inc. (2003), Double I Ltd. Partnership v. Plan & Zoning Commission (1991)

99 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Hall v. Cole · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Weinberger v. Kendrick

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A claim is made in bad faith upon the record showing that it is "entirely without color and [is taken] for reasons of harassment or delay or for other improper purposes . . . . Whether a claim is colorable, . . . is a matter of whether a reasonable attorney could have concluded that facts supporting the claim might be established, not whether such facts had been established."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 14916 - Sullivan v. Town of Monroe, No. Cv00 037 05 45 (Nov. 2, 2001) · 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 11807 - Rosenswaike v. Mather, No. Cv-99-0089571 S (Sep. 18, 2002)
“but also in the conduct of the litigation .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Lewis v. Bunnell, No. Cv99-9416 (Dec. 19, 2000) · Vallera v. Denny's Restaurant, Inc., No. Cv 91 0393633s (Oct. 7, 1994)
“"[W]e have declined to uphold awards under the bad-faith exception absent both clear evidence that the challenged actions are entirely without color and [are taken] for reasons of harassment or delay or for other improper purposes. . . ." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Fattibene v. Kealey, 18 Conn. App. 344 , 360-61 , 558 A.2d 677 (1989). CT Page 3858”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 11519 - Savitt v. Olderman Hallihan, No. Cv01 07 32 33 (Sep. 12, 2002) · 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 3855 - Caciopoli v. Neri Brothers Construction, No. Cv 92 0067375 (Mar. 17, 1998)

How this case has been treated — in progress

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