A.L. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Fox v. Custis (1988), 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 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
Relies on Irwin v. Town of Ware · Whitney v. City of Worcester · Dinsky v. Town of Framingham · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Westerlind · Acevedo v. Pima County Adult Probation Department
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Government officials are immune from suit, “[w]hen the particular conduct which caused the injury is one characterized by the high degree of discretion and judgment involved in weighing alternatives and making choices with respect to public policy and planning .... ” By contrast, we impose governmental liability “when the particular conduct claimed to be tortious involves ... the carrying out of previously established policies or plans.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acted pursuant to a judge's directive or otherwise in aid of the court. . . . Any claim to immunity which the Commonwealth might have asserted ceased when [the probation officer] failed to aid in the enforcement of the conditions of. . . probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A probation officer's duty to make reasonable efforts to ascertain whether a probationer has complied with the terms of his or her probation is not a discretionary function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.