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← 43 CONNAPP 265 - Field v. Kearns

Field v. Kearns’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

94
cited by 94 later decisions
4
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 10 district · 80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Rioux v. Barry (2007), New Haven Savings Bank v. LaPlace (2001)

2 federal appellate · 10 district · 80 state decisions

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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 Petyan v. Ellis · DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven · Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Carriage Lane Associates · Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. · 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Providing a private cause of action under CUTPA to a supposedly aggrieved party for the actions of his or her opponent's attorney would stand the attorney-client relationship on its head and would compromise an attorney's duty of undivided loyalty to his or her client and thwart the exercise of the attorney's independent professional judgment on his or her client's behalf.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 8471 - Knudsen v. Buettner, No. 32 07 08 (Jul. 20, 1998) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 11449 - Lane Construction Corp. v. O'brien, No. X06-Cv-97-0157926 S (Sep. 20, 2000)
  2. “In Connecticut, parties to or witnesses before judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings are entitled to absolute immunity for the content of statements made therein.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 189 Conn. App. 85 - Cohen v. King · 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 465 - Schreiber v. Federal Insurance Co., No. Cv-00-0091899 (Jan. 9, 2001)
  3. “attorneys cannot be liable to their client's adversaries for alleged unfair trade practices occurring in the course of the attorneys' representation of a client.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 8471 - Knudsen v. Buettner, No. 32 07 08 (Jul. 20, 1998) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 11449 - Lane Construction Corp. v. O'brien, No. X06-Cv-97-0157926 S (Sep. 20, 2000)

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.