87 Conn. App. 634 - Stohlts v. Gilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Craig Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Viacom Outdoor, Inc. (2008), Stohlts v. Gilkinson (2005)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 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 Berry v. Loiseau · Markey v. Santangelo · Carrol v. Allstate Insurance · Tedesco v. City of Stamford · Tedesco v. City of Stamford
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]unitive damages can properly be awarded against a master or other principal because of an act by an agent if, but only if, (a) the principal or a managerial agent authorized the doing and the manner of the act, or (b) the agent was unfit and the principal or a managerial agent was reckless in employing or retaining him, or (c) the agent was employed in a managerial capacity and was acting in the scope of employment, or (d) the principal or a managerial agent of the principal ratified or approved the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause punitive damages may include attorney's fees, we treat this claim for attorney's fees as a request for punitive damages. Although the plaintiff did not claim attorney's fees in the form of punitive damages but instead merely as 'attorney's fees,' the defendant necessarily [was] on notice that punitive damages were being claimed because of the type of conduct pleaded and the fact that attorney's fees, [for this claim], could be obtained only through the awarding of punitive damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in order to award punitive damages, evidence must reveal a reckless indifference to the rights of others or an intentional and wanton violation of those rights.... Recklessness is a state of consciousness with reference to the consequences of one's acts.... It is more than negligence, more than gross negligence.... The state of mind amounting to recklessness may be inferred from conduct. But, in order to infer it, there must be something more than a failure to exercise a reasonable degree of watchfulness to avoid danger to others or to take reasonable precautions to avoid injury to them.... Wanton misconduct is reckless misconduct.... It is such conduct as indicates a reckless disregard of the just rights or safety of others or of the consequences of the action.... Whether the defendant acted recklessly is a question of fact subject to the clearly erroneous standard of review.”
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.