Twomey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brum v. Town of Dartmouth · Gallant v. Worcester · Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Ayala v. Boston Housing Authority · Huff v. City of Holyoke
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grants the Commonwealth [further] immunity... in situations where the Commonwealth inspects the property of third parties, as in the case of an inspection for code compliance.... It does not preclude claims, as here, arising from the Commonwealth’s negligent maintenance of its own property, even though that maintenance may include inspections.”
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.