O'CONNELL v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 201 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Reno v. Kim Ho Ma · State v. Butler · Young v. Schering Corp.
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presume that the Legislature intended something other than that expressed by way of the plain language.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No nonprofit corporation ... organized exclusively for ... educational purposes or its trustees, directors, officers, employees, agents, servants or volunteers shall, except as is hereinafter set forth, be liable to respond in damages to any person who shall suffer damage from the negligence of any agent or servant of such corporation ... provided, however, that such immunity from liability shall not extend to any person who shall suffer damage from the negligence of such corporation, society, or association or of its agents or servants where such person is one unconcerned in and unrelated to and outside of the benefactions of such corporation....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tate colleges plainly meet the statutory definition of a charitable institution under the CIA a `nonprofit corporation... organized exclusively for ... educational purposes.' " Ibid. To the extent that the CIA applies to privately operated nonprofit corporations organized exclusively for educational purposes, it also should be applied to publicly operated corporations organized exclusively for educational purposes. Id. at 499-500 , 795 A .2d at 866 . Justice Stein dissented, agreeing with "Judge Havey's comprehensive and well-reasoned opinion....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.