Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 211 CONN 485 - Blake v. Blake

Blake v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

131
cited by 131 later decisions
1
states following
April 2021
most recently cited

2 district · 125 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Delahunty v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (1996), Grimm v. Grimm (2005)

2 district · 125 state decisions

80019891990200020102020decided

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 CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · Gallo v. Gallo · State v. Amarillo · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello

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

  1. “`When there is a good faith dispute about the existence of a debt or about the amount that is owed, the common law [doctrine of accord and CT Page 5741-gp satisfaction] authorizes the debtor and the creditor to negotiate a contract of accord to settle the outstanding claim.' . . . Blake v. Blake, 211 Conn. 485 , 491 , 560 A.2d 396 (1989); County Fire Door Corp. v. C. F. Wooding Co., 202 Conn. 277 , 281-82 , 520 A.2d 1028 (1987); Kelly v. Kowalsky, 186 Conn. 618 , 621 , 442 A.2d 1355 (1982).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fromson v. United States · 1993 Conn. Super. Ct. 3236 - Meadow Indus. Assoc. v. Mpc Educ. Sys., No. Cv 88 0095618 (Apr. 6, 1993)
  2. “. . . . Punishment of a litigant should play no role in the determination of the issue of awarding attorney's fees.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Molitierno v. Molitierno, No. 077548 (Aug. 22, 1990) · 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 4307 - Sheiman v. Sheiman, No. Fa-90-0270827 S (May 13, 1992)
  3. “[t]he difference between an assignment of a specific portion of an estate and alimony is in their purposes”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wendt v. Wendt, No. Fa 96-0149562 S (Jun. 12, 2000) · Reinke v. Sing

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.