Davis v. Forman School’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Fishbein v. Kozlowski (1999), D'ERAMO v. Smith (2005)
2 district · 28 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 Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · Rodriguez v. United States · Castro v. Viera · Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. · American Universal Insurance v. DelGreco
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While there is no precise definition of either [substantive or procedural law], it is generally agreed that a substantive law creates, defines and regulates rights while a procedural law prescribes the methods of enforcing such rights or obtaining redress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`When there is a good faith dispute about the existence of a debt or about the amount that is owed, the common law [doctrine of accord and CT Page 5741-gp satisfaction] authorizes the debtor and the creditor to negotiate a contract of accord to settle the outstanding claim.' . . . Blake v. Blake, 211 Conn. 485 , 491 , 560 A.2d 396 (1989); County Fire Door Corp. v. C. F. Wooding Co., 202 Conn. 277 , 281-82 , 520 A.2d 1028 (1987); Kelly v. Kowalsky, 186 Conn. 618 , 621 , 442 A.2d 1355 (1982). "A contract of accord and satisfaction is sufficiently supported by consideration if it settles a monetary claim that is unliquidated in amount.' County Fire Door Corp. v. C. F. Wooding Co., supra, 281-82. The settlement agreement between the parties is called an accord and the execution or performance of that agreement is called the satisfaction. 1 E. Farnsworth, Contracts (2d Ed. 1998) § 4.24, pp. 522-23; see J. Calamari J. Perillo, Contracts (3d Ed. 1987) § 21-4, p. 868; Black's Law Dictionary (6th Ed. 1990); 1 Am.Jur.2d, Accord and Satisfaction § 1 (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While there is no precise definition of either [substantive or procedural law], it is generally agreed that a substantive law creates, defines and regulates rights while a procedural law prescribes the methods of enforcing such rights or obtaining redress. . . . Where the amendment is not substantive, i.e., not directed to the right itself but rather to the remedy, it is generally considered a distinctly procedural matter. Miller v. Kirshner, 225 Conn. 185 , 204 , 621 A.2d 1326 (1993);”
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.