Kunst v. Vitale’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2011
17 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 10 Conn. App. 239 - Shenefield v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n · Boyce v. Allstate Insurance · Claros v. Worcester Company · Caron v. Adams · State v. Andrews
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.
“`To prove that a [podiatrist] has breached the legally required standard of care, the plaintiff must offer some evidence that the conduct of the [podiatrist] was negligent. . . . [T]estimony of an expert witness is necessary to establish both the standard of proper professional skill or care on the part of a [podiatrist] . . . and that the defendant failed to conform to that standard of care.' (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Keans v. Bocciarelli , 35 Conn. App. 239 , 241-42 , 645 A.2d 1029 , cert. denied, 231 Conn. 934 , CT Page 7820 650 A.2d 172 (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he interpretation of pleadings is always a question of law for the court. . . . In addition, the allegations of the complaint must be given such reasonable construction as will give effect to [it] in conformity with the general theory which it was intended to follow, and do substantial justice between the parties .”
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.