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Soares v. Max Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

cited by 54 later decisions

states following

August 2013

most recently cited

2 district · 50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Southbridge Associates, LLC v. Garofalo (1999), State v. Sostre (2002)

2 district · 50 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 Peck v. Jacquemin · Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Dubno · Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Walsh · Orticelli v. Powers

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

“It involves the idea of assent, and assent is an act of understanding. . . . Intention to relinquish must appear, but acts and conduct inconsistent with intention to [relinquish] . . . are sufficient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 4744 - Harp v. King, No. 392107 (Mar. 15, 2000) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 7491 - Getty Petroleum Marketing v. Tuli, No. Cv21-10191 (Jun. 21, 2000)
“Waiver is the intentional abandonment of a known right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 2384 - Holbrook v. Freedom of Information Comm., No. Cv96-0563515s (Apr. 9, 1997) · 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 12783 - One Sylvan Rd. v. Lark Int'l Ltd., No. Cv94 031 05 85 S (Dec. 31, 1997)
“Waiver is the intentional abandonment of a known right. . . . `Waiver is the voluntary relinquishment of a known right. It involves the idea of assent, and assent is an act of understanding. . . . Intention to relinquish must appear, but acts and conduct inconsistent with intention to [relinquish] . . . are sufficient. . . . Waiver is a question of fact for the trier. . . . At bottom, there must be a `right' that is capable of being waived. As a general matter, rights granted by statute may be waived unless the statute is intended to protect the general rights of the public rather than public rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 9727 - Rigoglioso v. Stevens Ford, Inc., No. Cv96 330848s (Nov. 27, 1996)

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.