Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 32 Conn. App. 644 - Pergament v. Green (1993), Meyers v. Cornwell Quality Tools, Inc. (1996)
4 district · 44 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Dunham v. Dunham · Kelley v. Bonney · Terry v. Terry · Alaimo v. Royer
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] promise to do an act in the future when coupled with a present intent not to fulfill it, is a false representation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) a false representation was made as a statement of fact; (2) the statement was untrue and known to be so by its maker; (3) the statement was made with the intent of inducing reliance thereon; and (4) the other party relied on the statement to his detriment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of the complaint is to limit the issues to be decided at the trial of a case and is calculated to prevent surprise. . . . A plaintiff may not allege one cause of action and recover upon another. Facts found but not averred cannot be made the basis for a recovery. . . . (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.)”
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.