DeSantis v. Piccadilly Land Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1987), 4 Conn. App. 46 - Montanaro Brothers Builders, Inc. v. Snow (1985)
3 district · 31 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 Sturman v. Socha · Scribner v. O'Brien, Inc. · Collens v. New Canaan Water Co. · Saphir v. Neustadt · Reynolds v. Ramos
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action for fraud, the plaintiffs are entitled to punitive damages, in addition to general and special damages. ... The purpose of awarding punitive damages is not to punish the defendant for his offense, but to compensate the plaintiff for his injuries. ... The rule in this state as to torts is that punitive damages are awarded when the evidence shows a reckless indifference to the rights of others or an intentional and wanton violation of those rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In an action for fraud, the plaintiffs are entitled to punitive damages . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The cases where this will be done are those in which the corporation is a mere sham or device to accomplish some ulterior purpose or is a mere instrumentality or agent of another corporation or individual owning all or most of its stock . . . or whether the purposes is to evade some statute or accomplish some fraud for an illegal purpose . . . or in some other like situation . . . unless something of this nature is established, to refuse to recognize the corporate entity as such is in the words of Chief Judge Cardozo, to `thwart the public policy of the state instead of defending and upholding it.'”
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.