Todd v. Malafronte’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital (1997), Hallas v. Boehmke & Dobosz, Inc. (1997)
6 district · 55 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 Beckenstein v. Potter & Carrier, Inc. · Puro v. Henry · Warner v. Leslie-Elliott Constructors, Inc. · Frankovitch v. Burton · Muha v. United Oil Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the ordinary action for negligence the jury can apply, unaided by experts, the standard of care of the reasonably prudent person under the circumstances. Levett v. Etkind, 158 Conn. 567 , 573 , 265 A.2d 70 (1969). This standard does not apply to an action where laymen cannot be expected to know the requirements of proper care in the usual case. Id., 573-74 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where he undertakes to procure a policy affording protection CT Page 9282 against a designated risk, the law imposes upon him an obligation to perform with reasonable care the duty he has assumed, and he may be liable for loss properly attributable to his default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conclusion of negligence is ordinarily one of mixed law and fact, involving the determination of the standard of care required and its application to the facts of the particular case”
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.