Grigerik v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Gazo v. City of Stamford (2001), Kim v. Magnotta (1999)
10 district · 104 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 Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. · Gateway Co. v. DiNoia · Stowe v. Smith · Lar-Rob Bus Corp. v. Town of Fairfield · Peerless Insurance v. Nault
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he CT Page 11267 ultimate test to be applied [in determining whether a person has a right of action as a third party beneficiary] is whether the intent of the parties to the contract was that the promisor should assume a direct obligation to the third party [beneficiary] and . . . that intent is to be determined from the terms of the contract read in the light of the circumstances attending its making, including the motives and purposes of the parties . . . . Although . . . [i]t is not in all instances necessary that there be express language in the contract creating a direct obligation to the claimed third party beneficiary . . . the only way a contract could create a direct obligation between a promisor and a third party beneficiary would have to be . . . because the parties to the contract so intended.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]oth contracting parties must intend to confer enforceable rights in a third party”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] third party seeking to enforce a contract must allege and prove that the contracting parties intended that the promisor should assume a direct obligation to the third party.”
6 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.