Burns v. Koellmer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiffs cause of action did not arise until defendant breached agreement by refusing to compensate plaintiff fully for her services
• stating that the cause of action arose when “the defendant breached the agreement by refusing to fully compensate the plaintiff for her services”
• finding that recovery in quantum meruit was appropriate because CT Page 1581 the complaint did not allege an express contract
• \when causes of action . . . are separate and distinct . . . separate counts are necessary or indeed ordinarily desirable.\
• action based on agreement between parties for payment of additional compensation accrued at time employer refused to pay, not at failure to pay during course of employment
• quantum meruit and unjust enrichment may support recovery between unmarried couple

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Liljedahl Bros. v. Grigsby
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-06-12· cited 572×
• Barrett Builders v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-06-12· cited 169×
• Lo Sacco v. Young
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-09-19· cited 84×
• Polverari v. Peatt
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-09-15· cited 82×
• Sidney v. DeVries
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-06-12· cited 68×
• Rosick v. Equipment Maintenance & Service, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-11-09· cited 58×
• Gagne v. Vaccaro
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-12-09· cited 51×
• United Coastal Industries, Inc. v. Clearheart Construction Co.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-08-13· cited 45×
• Duplissie v. Devino
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2006-07-25· cited 27×
• Silver v. Jacobs
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1996-09-17· cited 26×
• Hill v. Williams
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-01-28· cited 22×
• Calabrese v. McHugh
  D. Connecticut· 2001-10-18· cited 21×
• Faulkner v. Marineland, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-03-28· cited 20×
• Haynes Construction Co. v. Cascella & Son Construction, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-07-28· cited 19×
• Colby v. Burnham
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-06-29· cited 17×
• Walker v. People's United Bank
  D. Connecticut· 2018-03-30· cited 15×
• Schirmer v. Souza
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-02-22· cited 15×
• Biller Associates v. Peterken
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2000-05-30· cited 13×
• Parker v. Slosberg
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-10-29· cited 13×
• Moulton Bros. v. Lemieux
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-12-31· cited 13×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Marvin v. Marvin
  California Supreme Court· 1976-12-27· cited 396×
• Cahill v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-31· cited 161×
• L. F. Pace & Sons, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1986-09-02· cited 143×
• Ardoline v. Keegan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1954-01-05· cited 105×
• Providence Electric Co. v. Sutton Place, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1971-06-01· cited 101×
• Boland v. Catalano
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-02-17· cited 80×
• Franks v. Lockwood
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1959-03-31· cited 78×
• Monarch Accounting Supplies, Inc. v. Prezioso
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-04-20· cited 62×
• Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Cole
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-03-15· cited 56×
• Stavnezer v. Sage-Allen & Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1959-05-08· cited 51×
• Lancaster v. Bank of New York
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1960-07-19· cited 44×
• Lombardi v. J. A. Bergren Dairy Farms, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1965-06-28· cited 44×
• Rossetti v. City of New Britain
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-06-14· cited 38×
• Anderson v. Zweigbaum
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1963-04-25· cited 34×
• Roberts v. Criss
  Second Circuit· 1920-05-12· cited 22×
• City of Hartford v. Anderson Fairoaks, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1986-06-03· cited 18×
• Comes v. Lamson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1844-06-15· cited 15×
• Goodman v. Metallic Ladder Manufacturing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-05-27· cited 9×
• Derr v. Moody
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1969-04-25· cited 9×
• Cougler v. Fackler
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1974-05-17· cited 7×