Poly v. Moylan’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Kattar v. Demoulas (2000), Masingill v. EMC Corp. (2007)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 50 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 10 U.S.C. § 814 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on United States v. Gaubert · Berkovitz v. United States · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · Robertson v. Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moylan withdrew with court approval from the action pending in the Superior Court on March 25, 1992. The claim was not dismissed against Janet Gillis until August 1992, and was not dismissed against her husband until November 2, 1993. Therefore, when Moylan withdrew from the case with court permission after notice to the plaintiff, there was still a viable case pending against the Gillises and it was still possible to proceed with discovery and investigation .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen established governmental policy, as expressed or implied by statute, regulation, or agency guidelines, allows a Government agent to exercise discretion, it must be presumed that the agent's acts are grounded in policy when exercising that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough this does not necessarily mean there was no bias, we do take [it] into consideration when viewing the record.”
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.