O'Brien v. O'Brien

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that ‘‘a distribution ratio of 78 percent to 22 percent is not, on its face, excessive,’’ and observing that ‘‘we have upheld distributions awarding as much as 90 percent of the marital estate to one party’’
• explaining that court has discretion to impose remedial financial order so long as its value does ‘‘not exceed the reasonable value of the injured party’s losses’’
• even in absence of finding of contempt, trial court has broad discretion to issue remedial orders
• trial court had discretion to remedy plaintiff's violations of court order through distribution of marital property
• ‘‘[t]he court’s enforcement power is necessary to ‘preserve its dignity and to protect its proceedings’ ’’
• trial court can take into account, ‘‘when dividing the parties’ assets, whether a party had engaged in a dissipation of those assets’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

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  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2017-12-05· cited 13×
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  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-11-17· cited 13×
• Barber v. Barber
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-10-01· cited 8×
• Hall v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-04-13· cited 8×
• Anketell v. Kulldorff
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2021-09-28· cited 8×
• Oudheusden v. Oudheusden
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-04-27· cited 6×
• Maurice v. Chester Housing Associates Ltd. Partnership
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-02-26· cited 4×
• Ingles v. Ingles
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2022-12-06· cited 3×
• Wethington v. Wethington
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2024-02-13· cited 3×
• Wald v. Cortland-Wald
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2024-07-23· cited 3×
• Marshall v. Marshall
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-10-06· cited 2×
• Mazza v. Mazza
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2022-11-01· cited 1×
• Marzaro v. Marzaro
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2025-03-04· cited 1×
• State v. Kenneth K.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2025-05-20· cited 1×
• Welsh v. Martinez
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-08-20
• Grogan v. Penza
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-10-29
• Fronsaglia v. Fronsaglia
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2021-02-23
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  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2024-08-20
• K. S. v. R. S.
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Cites

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

• United States v. United Mine Workers of America
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-06· cited 2,872×
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger
  Supreme Court· 2017-04-18· cited 700×
• Krafick v. Krafick
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-08· cited 162×
• Connolly v. Connolly
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-09-13· cited 149×
• Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-04-27· cited 117×
• Eldridge v. Eldridge
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-04-21· cited 114×
• Bornemann v. Bornemann
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-07-21· cited 111×
• West Haven Sound Development Corp. v. City of West Haven
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-08-26· cited 109×
• Millbrook Owners Ass'n v. Hamilton Standard
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-07-24· cited 82×
• Greco v. Greco
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-09-06· cited 71×
• Maturo v. Maturo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-05-04· cited 65×
• Sweet v. Sweet
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-07-19· cited 63×
• Sunbury v. Sunbury
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-12-25· cited 60×
• Clement v. Clement
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-06-14· cited 59×
• Sablosky v. Sablosky
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-12-11· cited 58×
• AvalonBay Communities, Inc. v. Plan & Zoning Commission
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-05-21· cited 58×
• Sosin v. Sosin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-02-22· cited 54×
• Middlebrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1876-01-15· cited 54×
• DeMartino v. Monroe Little League, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-02-21· cited 53×
• Robinson v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-05-04· cited 52×