Johnson v. Modern Continental Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2023
4 district · 11 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 Merchants Insurance Company of New Hampshire Inc v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co · Waldman v. American Honda Motor Co. · Freyermuth v. Lutfy · Rischitelli v. Safety Insurance · New England Mutual Life Insurance v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not consider coverage questions under an insurance contract analogous to coverage under an indemnity provision of a construction contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the causation standard to be applied to trigger a subcontractor’s indemnification obligation in a construction contract is that established by our decision in Miley v. Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics, Inc., 41 Mass.App.Ct. at 33, 668 N.E.2d 369 [rev. denied, 423 Mass. 1111 , 672 N.E.2d 539 (1996) ]. Under the Miley standard, there must be proof that the subcontractor’s action or inaction provoked the mishap. Ibid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subcontractor’s obligation to indemnify any person for injury to persons or property in a construction contract is subject to the provisions of G.L. c. 149, § 29C, which limits the subcontractor's liability to injury to persons or property 'caused by’ the subcontractor, its employees, agents or subcontractors.”
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.