Serrano v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
44 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · DiProspero v. Penn · Oswin v. Shaw · University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Inc. v. Christodoulou · Mancini v. Township of Teaneck
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury shall be considered permanent when the body part or organ, or both, has not healed to function normally and will not heal to function normally with further medical treatment. [ Id. ]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is a fine line between interpreting statutory language and engrafting a judicial standard over that language.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.