Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• in order to admit a state regulation into evidence, it must be either certified or authenticated
• “A duty to use care may arise from a contract, [or] from a statute .... ”
• proximate cause is found by looking for necessary causal connection between injury and negligent act
• evidence of custom in trade “may be admitted on the issue of the standard of care, but is not conclusive”
• more than one proximate cause may result in any harm suffered; proximate cause results from a sequence of events unbroken by a superseding cause.
• duty to use care arises under circumstances in which reasonable person should have known harm of risk imposed by failure to act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-07-05· cited 1,206×
• Waters v. Autuori
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-05-07· cited 485×
• Shore v. Town of Stonington
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-05-18· cited 403×
• Catz v. Rubenstein
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-08-12· cited 354×
• Gazo v. City of Stamford
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-01-30· cited 339×
• Burns v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-03-08· cited 258×
• Mather v. Griffin Hospital
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-04-19· cited 206×
• Doe v. Manheimer
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-08-22· cited 190×
• Stewart v. Federated Department Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-01· cited 148×
• Sheiman v. Lafayette Bank & Trust Co.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1985-05-14· cited 145×
• Boehm v. Kish
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-11-18· cited 130×
• Bohan v. Last
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-04-23· cited 114×
• Fleming v. Garnett
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-08-23· cited 109×
• Tetro v. Town of Stratford
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-04-05· cited 94×
• Barry v. Quality Steel Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-05-06· cited 88×
• Ely v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-04-12· cited 82×
• Preston v. Keith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-01-01· cited 73×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-14· cited 71×
• Sharp v. Wyatt, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-07-06· cited 70×
• Annamarie Lamontagne, Doreen A. Festa and Susan B. Pregler v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1994-12-05· cited 67×

Other cases named Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-10-18· cited 121×