531 F. Supp. 156 - Hedrick v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2016
3 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Blake v. Kline · Pajewski v. Perry · City of Wilmington v. Spencer · Varity Builders, Inc. v. Polikoff
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A governmental entity shall be exposed to liability for its negligent acts or omissions causing property damage, bodily injury or death in the following instances: (1) In its ownership, maintenance or use of any motor vehicle, special mobile equipment, trailer, aircraft or other machinery or equipment, whether mobile or stationary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Counsel for Plaintiff argued strenuously that the repeated appearance of the name of the Town of Fenwick Island on the policy makes it one of the covered parties. Given the text of the policy, it seems more plausible that the underlying intention of the parties to the policy is to protect individual officers, the “insureds” under the policy, from civil liability incurred through their negligent or tortious acts committed during the course of their service with the police department. This type of coverage may well be essential to a town or municipality’s ability to recruit and keep qualified officers.”
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.