← 39 Conn. Super. Ct. 416 - Bent v. Green

39 Conn. Super. Ct. 416 - Bent v. Green’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

cited by 17 later decisions

states following

March 2011

most recently cited

2 district · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2011

2 district · 13 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

Applies 26 U.S.C. § 671

Relies on Helvering v. Clifford · Ardoline v. Keegan · DuBose v. Carabetta · Cecio Bros. v. Town of Greenwich · Fitzmaurice v. Flynn

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The duty owed by an attorney in the representation of a client is the same degree of care, skill and diligence which other attorneys in the same or similar locality and in the same line of practice would have exercised in similar circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bennett v. Lindsay, No. 389401 (Jul. 6, 1999) · 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 10568 - Myjak v. Terrace, No. Cv93 0346591 (Oct. 18, 1994)
“Unjust enrichment . . . applies wherever justice requires compensation to be given for property or services rendered under a contract, and no remedy is available by an action on the contract. . . . A right of recovery under the doctrine of unjust enrichment is essentially equitable, its basis being that in a given situation it is contrary to equity and good conscience for one to retain a benefit which has come to him at the expense of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 409 - Arrowhead by the Lake Assoc. v. Arrowhead, No. Cv95-0128458s (Jan. 21, 1999)
“go well beyond the scope of what a lay person could fairly construe as negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 10568 - Myjak v. Terrace, No. Cv93 0346591 (Oct. 18, 1994)

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.