2 Conn. App. 58 - Lafaive v. Diloreto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 55 state decisions

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

1. “Either type of notice must be notice of the very defect which occasioned the injury and not merely of conditions naturally productive of that defect even though subsequently in fact producing it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pitruzzello v. Stop Shop Supermarket, No. Cv 01 0093886 S (Sep. 12, 2002) · 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 12624 - Ciriello v. General Instrument Corporation, No. 0109253 (Dec. 9, 1994)

2. “(a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence or event, if the trial judge finds that it was made in the regular course of any business, and that it was the regular course of the business to make the writing or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 389 - Centerbank v. Sachs, No. Cv91-037054 (Jan. 3, 1994)

3. “To gain admission of a document under the business record exception to the hearsay rule, the proponent must show that (1) the document was made in the regular course of business, (2) it was the regular course of business to make such a record, and (3) the record was made when the act, transaction or event occurred, or shortly thereafter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 389 - Centerbank v. Sachs, No. Cv91-037054 (Jan. 3, 1994)