Ratner v. Willametz’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably CFM of Connecticut, Inc. v. Chowdhury (1996), Whalen v. Ives (1995)
84 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 Breen v. Phelps · Birgel v. Heintz · Turgeon v. Turgeon · Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co. · Slattery v. Maykut
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic measure of damages for injury to real property is the resultant diminution in its value. . . . In order to assess the diminution in value, however, the trial court must first determine the value of the property, both before and after the injury has occurred. . . . In actions requiring such a valuation of property, the trial court is charged with the duty of making an independent valuation of the property involved. . . . `"[N]o one method of valuation is controlling and . . . the referee may select the one most appropriate in the case before him."' Slavitt v. Ives, 163 Conn. 198 , 212 , 303 A.2d 13 (1972). Moreover, a variety of factors may be considered by the trial court in assessing the value of such property. `[T]he trial court arrives at his own conclusions by weighing the opinions of the appraisers, the claims of the parties, and his own general knowledge of the elements going to establish value, and then employs the most appropriate method of determining valuation.'. . . (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A judge is not bound to follow the decisions of another judge made at an earlier stage of the proceedings, and if the same point is again raised he has the same right to reconsider the question as if he had himself made the original decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In any hearing in damages upon default suffered, . . . the defendant shall not be permitted to offer evidence to contradict any allegation in the plaintiff's complaint, except such as relate to the amount of damages, unless he has given notice to the plaintiff of his intention to contradict such allegations and of the subject matter which he intends to contradict, . . . nor shall he be permitted to prove any matter of defense, unless he has given written notice to the plaintiff of his intention to prove such matter of defense."”
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.