40 Conn. Super. Ct. 259 - Irwin v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2002
16 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 Burns v. Hartford Hospital · Hassett v. Carroll · Charles W. Blakeslee & Sons v. Carroll · 37 Conn. Super. Ct. 38 - Magnan v. Anaconda Industries, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only the qualified or conditional privilege that may be abused or lost by malice, improper motive, or bad faith.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“communication was sufficiently preliminary to, or during the course of, a proposed, or continuing judicial proceeding, to be absolutely privileged since it was between two attorneys and the letter was captioned with a case name and concerned the dispute between the two parties to the action. Id., 263 . Not only was a judicial proceeding contemplated in the present case according to the correspondence, one actually took place, although it was subsequently dismissed for CT Page 1462 in effect forum non conveniens grounds. In the instant case, an attorney also sent letters to another attorney. The content of the letters indicates that they were in preparation for a proposed judicial proceeding. In the first portion of the first letter, Hayes requested documents and explanations for various transactions. The second portion of the first letter was entitled "Ruth O. Good — Partial List of Actionable Items,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[a]n attorney at law is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter concerning another in communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding, or in the institution of, or during the course and as a part of, a judicial proceeding in which he participates as counsel, if it has some relation to the proceeding.'”
2 later decisions 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.