Beverly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Barrows v. J.C. Penney Co. (2000), Hackling v. Casbro Construction of Rhode Island (2001)
27 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 Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · Mather v. Griffin Hospital · Sadloski v. Town of Manchester · Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc. · State v. Brown
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any civil action tried to a jury, after the return of a verdict and before judgment has been rendered thereon, . . . not more than fourteen days after judgment has been rendered, the prevailing party may file a written motion requesting the court to make a special finding to be incorporated in the judgment or CT Page 14206 made a part of the record, as the case may be, that the action or a defense to the action was without merit and not brought or asserted in good faith. Any such finding by the court shall be admissible in any subsequent action brought pursuant to section 52-568 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have declined to uphold awards under the bad-faith exception absent both clear evidence that the challenged actions are entirely without color and [are taken] for reasons of harassment or delay or for other improper purposes. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The existence of conflicting evidence limits the court's authority to overturn a jury verdict. The jury is entrusted with the choice of which evidence is more credible and what effect it is to be given.”
3 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.