Deleo v. Nusbaum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 68 state decisions

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.

1. “a court grants the attorney's motion to withdraw from the representation.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 691 - Straw Pond Associates, LLC v. Fitzpatrick, Mariano & Santos, P.C. · 177 Conn. App. 758 - In re Ceana R.

2. “(1) that the defendant continued to represent him with regard to the same underlying matter; and (2) either that the plaintiff did not know of the alleged malpractice or that the attorney could still mitigate the harm allegedly caused by that malpractice during the continued representation period.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 691 - Straw Pond Associates, LLC v. Fitzpatrick, Mariano & Santos, P.C. · 177 Conn. App. 758 - In re Ceana R.

3. “A statute of limitation or of repose is designed to (1) prevent the unexpected enforcement of stale and fraudulent claims by allowing persons after the lapse of a reasonable time, to plan their affairs with a reasonable degree of certainty, free from the disruptive burden of protracted and unknown potential liability, and (2) to aid in the search for truth that may be impaired by the loss of evidence, whether by death or disappearance of witnesses, fading memories, disappearance of documents or otherwise.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 691 - Straw Pond Associates, LLC v. Fitzpatrick, Mariano & Santos, P.C. · 188 Conn. App. 343 - Manzo-Ill v. Schoonmaker