21 Conn. App. 40 - Ossen v. Wanat’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2013
15 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 In Re Michael A. · Bowman v. 1477 Central Avenue Apartments, Inc. · State v. Crump · 1 Conn. App. 439 - Southland Corp. v. Vernon · Fattibene v. Kealey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any allegation or denial made without reasonable cause and found untrue shall subject the party pleading the same to the payment of such reasonable expenses. to be taxed by the judicial authority, as may have been necessarily incurred by the other party by reason of such untrue pleading; provided that no expenses for counsel fees shall be taxed exceeding $500 for any one offense. Such expenses shall be taxed against the offending party whether that party prevails in the action or not. (See General Statutes § 52-99 and annotations.) "[T]he task of determining whether sanctions should be imposed is inherently fact bound, and requires carefully circumscribed discretion to be exercised by the trial court." Fattibene v. Kealey , 18 Conn. App. 344 , 362 , 558 A.2d 677 (1989). Good faith pleading must be judged in the light of all the circumstances existing at the time the pleading was filed. State v. Anonymous (1974-5) , 31 Conn. Sup. 179 , 180-81 , 326 A.2d 837 (1974); see also 1 W. Moller W. Horton, Connecticut Practice Book Annotated (1989) 111, p. 279. "To determine whether the bad faith exception applies, the court must assess whether there has been substantive bad faith as exhibited by, for example, a party's use of oppressive tactics or its wilful violations of court orders; `[t]he appropriate focus CT Page 151 for the court . . . is the conduct of the party in instigating or maintaining the litigation.'" (Emphasis added.) Fattibene v. Kealey , supra , 361”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While in certain cases complex issues may necessarily be a part of the action . . . the ordinary summary pace cannot be `stalled by the defendant's simply raising the spectre of a complexity which is not . . . rooted in the nature of the relationship between landlord and tenant and in the basis of the landlord's claim to possession; or simply by the defendant's threat to raise complex defenses which are not likely to be asserted in good faith. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Summary process is a straightforward action limited to a few simple questions of fact.”
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.