37 Conn. Super. Ct. 1 - Barbieri v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2002
9 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 Birgel v. Heintz · Katsetos v. Nolan · Camp v. Booth · State v. Chin Lung · Jacobs v. Goodspeed
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The right to a jury trial is fundamental in our judicial system, and this court has said that the right is one obviously immovable limitation on the legal discretion of the court to set aside a verdict, since the constitutional right of a trial by jury includes the right to have issues of fact as to which there is room for reasonable difference of opinion among fair-minded men passed upon by the jury and not by the court.' Camp v. Booth 160 Conn. 10 , 13 , 273 A.2d 714 (1970); Jacobs v. Goodspeed, 180 Conn. 415 , 429 A.2d 915 (1980); Gosselin v. Perry, 166 Conn. 152 , 168 , 348 A.2d 623 (1974). Clearly then, the amount of damages is within the province of the jury. Szivos v. Leonard, 113 Conn. 522 , 525 , 155A.637 (1931). `To justify setting aside a verdict, something more than a doubt of its adequacy must exist.' Vetre v. Keene, 181 Conn. 136 , 141 , 434 A.2d 327 (1980). Therefore, upon reviewing the adequacy of an award, the court must move cautiously to determine whether it should interfere with the verdict of a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When determining the additur, the court must make a fair appraisal of the just damages which should be awarded.... (citing cases) In other words, a court may not award less than full damages which may be tolerated as being adequate if awarded by a jury, . .. [ Barbieri v. Taylor, 37 Conn.Sup. 1 , 426 A. 2d 314, 317 (1980)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, it is the court's duty to set aside the verdict when it finds that”
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.