Kent v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Limone v. United States (2009), Leavitt v. Brockton Hospital, Inc. (2009)
4 federal appellate · 13 district · 68 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. · Morrison v. Olson · Mullins v. Pine Manor College · Eyal v. Helen Broadcasting Corp.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““any claim based on an act or failure to act to prevent or diminish the harmful consequences of a condition or situation, including the violent or tortious conduct of a third person, which is not originally caused by the public employer or any other person acting on behalf of the public employer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n addition to being the cause in fact of the injury [the but for cause], the plaintiff must show that the negligent conduct was a proximate or legal cause of the injury as well.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'materially contributed to creating the specific”
2 later decisions 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.