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← 431 MASS 729 - Luoni v. Berube

Luoni v. Berube’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 8 district · 49 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Rogers v. Loether · Mullins v. Pine Manor College · Mounsey v. Ellard · Irwin v. Town of Ware · Coveney v. President & Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross

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

  1. “"The concept of 'duty' ... 'is not sacrosanct in itself, but is only an expression of the sum total of ... considerations of policy which lead the law to say that the plaintiff is entitled to protection.... No better general statement can be made than that the courts will find a duty where, in general, reasonable persons would recognize it and agree that it exists.' "”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.