Kerins v. Lima’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably General Electric Co. v. Department of Environmental Protection (1999), Wolfe v. Gormally (2004)
2 district · 31 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 Commonwealth v. Welosky · Smith v. Jordan · Commercial Wharf East Condominium Ass'n v. Waterfront Parking Corp. · Edgar H. Wood Associates, Inc. v. Skene · Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Club
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court 'will not presume that the Legislature intended ... a radical change in the common law without a clear expression of such intent'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“temporary contract service providers with a defined set of rights and responsibilities that clearly differs from those of a child's parents”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Adoption Gemma
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.