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.
“[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“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“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.