Right v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The essential elements of a cause of action in negligence are well established: duty; breach of that duty; causation; and actual injury. ... If a plaintiff cannot prove all of those elements, the cause of action fails. ... [I]n a negligence action ... [a] causal relation between the defendant's wrongful conduct and the plaintiff's injuries is a fundamental element without which a plaintiff has no case ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 176 Conn. App. 39 - Rockhill v. Danbury Hospital

2. “[w]ithout proof of each of [the elements of a cause of action], a plaintiff's cause fails entirely, and he is not entitled to have the question of damages considered”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 173 Conn. App. 66 - Rendahl v. Peluso