Farrell v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Elgar v. Elgar (1996), Dietter v. Dietter (1999)
59 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 Markey v. Santangelo · Gino's Pizza of East Hartford, Inc. v. Kaplan · Tyler v. Schnabel · Tyers v. Coma · Rosick v. Equipment Maintenance & Service, Inc.
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.
“To furnish a basis for recovery of such damages, the pleadings must allege and the evidence must show wanton or wilful malicious misconduct, and the language contained in the pleadings must be sufficiently explicit to inform the court and opposing counsel that such damages are being sought.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, attorney's fees may not be recovered, either as costs or damages, absent contractual or statutory authorization. . . . Attorney's fees may be awarded, however, as a component of punitive damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A fraudulent conveyance must be proven by clear and convincing evidence. . . . Whether a conveyance is fraudulent is purely a question of fact.”
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.