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← 87 CONNAPP 390 - Wasko v. Manella

Wasko v. Manella’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

2 district · 32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 95 Conn. App. 315 - Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB v. Charles (2006), 90 Conn. App. 841 - Palmieri v. Cirino (2005)

2 district · 32 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 Breen v. Phelps · Beverly Hills Concepts, Inc. v. Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin · Lawson v. Whitey's Frame Shop · Chadha v. Charlotte Hungerford Hospital · Jewett v. Jewett

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]here a matter has previously been ruled upon interlocutorily, the court in a subsequent proceeding in the case may treat that decision as the law of the case, if it is of the opinion that the issue was correctly decided, in the absence of some new or overriding circumstance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[n]ominal damages are recoverable where there is a breach of a legal duty or the invasion of a legal right and no actual damages result or where, as here, such damages are not proven”
    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.