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← 870 A.2d 1131 - Right v. Breen

Right v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Riccio v. Abate · Schmeltz v. Tracy · 71 Conn. App. 217 - State v. Colon · Teitelman v. Bloomstein · Parker v. Griswold

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

  1. “The essential elements of a cause of action in negligence are well established: duty; breach of that duty; causation; and actual injury. ... If a plaintiff cannot prove all of those elements, the cause of action fails. ... [I]n a negligence action ... [a] causal relation between the defendant's wrongful conduct and the plaintiff's injuries is a fundamental element without which a plaintiff has no case ....”
    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.