40 Conn. Super. Ct. 263 - Sheppa v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “[j]ust because [settlement] is alleged as a special defense does not necessarily mean that the special defense must be submitted to the jury.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neary v. McCarthy, No. Cv 93 0063412 (Jun. 20, 1995) · Diaz v. Shibo Wu, No. Cv91 03 52 78 (Sep. 2, 1992)

2. “[a]n agreement with any tortfeasor not to bring legal action or a release of a tortfeasor in any cause of action shall not be read to a jury or in any other way introduced into evidence by either party at any time during the trial of the cause of action against any other joint tortfeasor, nor shall any other agreement not to sue or release of claim among any plaintiffs or defendants in the action be read or in any other way introduced into evidence." (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 2921 - Fritz v. Vestal, No. Cv 90 0111687 (Mar. 17, 1994)

3. “which sum shall operate as a set-off in the plaintiff's claim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neary v. McCarthy, No. Cv 93 0063412 (Jun. 20, 1995)