Ostrowski v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Murphy v. Wakelee (1998), Russell v. Russell (2005)
10 district · 61 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 Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Guth v. Loft, Inc. · Fink v. Golenbock · Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough purely intracorporate conflicts do not constitute CUTPA violations, actions outside the scope of the employment relationship designed to usurp the business and clientele of one corporation in favor of another . . . fit squarely within the provenance of CUTPA.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An officer and director occupies a fiduciary relationship to the corporation and its stockholders.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“CUTPA applies to a broad spectrum of commercial activity . . . The act states that `[n]o person shall engage in unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce' . . . The act defines `trade or commerce' broadly to encompass `the advertising, the sale or rent or lease, the offering for sale or rent or lease, or the distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value in this state' . . . The entire act is remedial in character . . . and must be liberally construed in favor of those whom the legislature intended to benefit.”
2 later decisions 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.