Duni v. United Technologies Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Dowling v. Slotnik (1998), Roth v. Weston (2002)
2 district · 89 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 Hopson v. St. Mary's Hospital · State v. Metz · Fleming v. Garnett · Krattenstein v. G. Fox & Co. · Davis v. City of Norwich
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to ascertain and give effect to the apparent intent of the legislature. . . . In seeking to discern that intent, we look to the words of the statute itself, to the legislative history and circumstances surrounding its enactment, to the legislative policy it was designed to implement, and to its relationship to existing legislation and common law principles governing the same general subject matter. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[i]n Biederzycki v. Farrel Foundry Machine Co ., 103 Conn. 701 , 704-05 , 131 A.2d 739 (1926), however, we cast doubt on the breadth of our statement in Jackson [concerning separate and independent entities], observing that Jackson merely `holds that the classes of compensation awarded the employee and his [or her] dependents are separate and independent of each other. But each arises out of the same compensable injury. If the employee is awarded compensation for an injury, and in consequence of it, subsequently dies, the injury preceding the death and the death arose out of the one injury, compensation for the latter is payable to and belongs to the dependent, while the compensation awarded to the living employee is payable to and belongs to him [or her].'" Duni v. United Technologies Corp ., 239 Conn. 19 , 26 n. 8, 682 A.2d 99 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is apparent that the dependant of an injured employee who dies as a result of work-related injuries has certain compensation rights that exist independent of the employee's rights. . . .”
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.