99 Conn. App. 719 - Whitaker v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 123 Conn. App. 800 - Harley v. Indian Spring Land Co. (2010), Almeida v. Holder (2009)
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Goodwin v. Missouri · Falby v. Zarembski · Smith v. Snyder · Deming v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Maruca v. Phillips
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If in order to sustain a claim for statutory theft, when coupled with a claim for conversion arising out of the same facts, a plaintiff must prove 'the additional element of intent over and above what he or she must demonstrate to prove conversion,' it necessarily follows that a plaintiff who cannot prove conversion also cannot prove statutory theft.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he [purpose] of awarding punitive damages is not to punish the defendant for his offense, but to compensate the plaintiff for his injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires an intent to deprive another of his property”
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.