50 Conn. App. 21 - Lord v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 93 Conn. App. 759 - Rudder v. MAMANASCO LAKE PARK ASS'N, INC. (2006), Kramer v. Petisi (1999)
46 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 Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · State v. Curcio · Berry v. Loiseau · Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Virgo v. Lyons
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lord was wrongly decided because, among other reasons, it [was] inconsistent with this court's decision in Paranteau ... which adopted the bright line rule that a judgment on the merits is final for purposes of appeal even though the recoverability or amount of attorney's fees for the litigation remains to be determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Punitive damages in Connecticut are not designed `to punish the defendant for his offense but rather to compensate the plaintiff for his injuries.' Miller v. Drouin, 183 Conn. 189 , 190 , 433 A.2d 863 (1981). . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well established that the appellate courts in this state do not have jurisdiction to entertain appeals not taken from final judgments. See General Statutes § 52-263 . . . .”
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.