Paulus v. LaSala’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Sosin v. Sosin (2011), Town of Ridgefield v. Eppoliti Realty Co. (2002)
4 district · 86 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 Gionfriddo v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. · Chmielewski v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Nor'easter Group, Inc. v. Colossale Concrete, Inc. · Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Walsh · Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman, Inc. v. EI Constructors, 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that Connecticut case law establishes that prejudgment interest is to be awarded if in the discretion of the trier of fact, equitable considerations deem that it is warranted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]oncontractual interest on money wrongfully detained was not sanctioned at common law; see K. Conway, 'Interest on Damages in Connecticut,' 30 Conn. B.J. 407 (1956); but has long been awarded pursuant to statute in Connecticut. General Statutes [1949 Rev.] § 6778; General Statutes (1902 Rev.) [§ 4600]; General Statutes (1888 Rev.) [§ 2942].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interest at the rate often per cent a year, and no more, may be recovered and allowed in civil actions . . . as damages for the detention of money after it becomes payable.”
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.