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← 47 MASSAPPCT 400 - Serrell v. Franklin County

Serrell v. Franklin County’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Brum v. Town of Dartmouth · Harry Stoller & Co. v. City of Lowell · Bonnie W. v. Commonwealth · Lawrence v. City of Cambridge

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

  1. “[T]he principal purpose of § 10 ( j ) is to preclude liability for failures to prevent or diminish harm, including harm brought about by the wrongful act of a third party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “based upon the intervention of a public employee which causes injury to the victim or places the victim in a worse position than he was in before the intervention.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “exacerbated the situation to her detriment”
    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.