37 Mass. App. Ct. 710 - Martino v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 203 F. Supp. 2d 52 - Orell v. UMass Memorial Medical Center, Inc. (2002), 'Abdullah v. Secretary of Public Safety (1997)
16 district · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Hewitt v. Helms
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There has been discussion of grounding a cause of action on the State Constitution for violation of its provisions where no statutory avenue for enforcement has been fashioned and made available. No actual decision on that line has reached the present situation or anything near it. To be considered before such a step is taken is the fact of the existence of § 1983 and the State analogue, [the MCRA]: these may be thought, as it were, to occupy the field.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“be fairly read as in themselves establishing a rule of personal liability of officials in case of breach”
1 later decision 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.