Long v. Schull’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably King v. Bankerd (1985), Beckenstein v. Potter & Carrier, Inc. (1983)
72 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Thomas v. Thomas · Smith v. Smith · Botticello v. Stefanovicz · McLaughlin v. Chicken Delight, Inc.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a written, formal contract of agency, creating a principal-agent relationship between [the plaintiff's decedent] and the defendant. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an estate is a party, the burden is on the person claiming the gift to prove the claim by clear and satisfactory proof. Kukanskis v. Jasut, 169 Conn. 29 , 32 , 362 A.2d 898 (1975). The question of whether a gift inter vivos or causa mortis has been made is within the exclusive province of the court. Id., 32-33 ; Bell v. Bloom, 146 Conn. 307 , 311 , 150 A.2d 300 (1959); Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co. v. Slater, 114 Conn. 603 , 612 , 159 A. 578 (1932). The determination of whether a gift has been made is not reviewable unless the conclusion of the court is one which cannot reasonably be made. Kriedel v. Krampitz, 137 Conn. 532 , 534 , 79 A.2d 181 (1951). The credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be accorded to their testimony is for the trier of fact. Smith v. Smith, 183 Conn. 121 , 123 , 438 A.2d 842 (1981); Chazen v. New Britain, 148 Conn. 349 , 352 , 170 A.2d 891 (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Agency is the fiduciary relationship which results from manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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