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← 430 MASS 198 - Santos v. Chrysler Corp.

Santos v. Chrysler Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

3 district · 19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Simon v. Solomon · Back v. Wickes Corp. · Poirier v. Town of Plymouth · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Correia v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “viewed with disfavor because the other incidents 'may have been the consequence of idiosyncratic circumstances.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “not replicate the exact circumstances of the plaintiff's accident.”
    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.