Serrano v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Serrano v. Burns · Lussier v. Department of Transportation · Morico v. Cox · Bresnan v. Frankel · 8 Conn. App. 169 - Zotta v. Burns
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.
“Any person injured in person or property through the neglect or default of the state or any of its employees by means of any defective highway, bridge or sidewalk which it is the duty of the Commissioner of Transportation to keep in repair ... may bring a civil action to recover damages .... No such action shall be brought ... unless notice of such injury and a general description of the same and of the cause thereof and of the time and place of its occurrence has been given in writing within ninety days thereafter to the commissioner. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here are two categories of cases in which the written notice is patently defective because of a problem with the description of the place of injury. The first category consists of situations [in which] a court has found that the notice stated a location different from the [actual] place of ... injury. ... The second category consists of situations [in which] the description is so vague in its breadth that the [commissioner] could not be reasonably expected to make a timely investigation based on the information provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he defendant has offered no proof that the 'rear lot' of a particular rest stop encompasses such an expansive area that it fails to guide him in making an intelligent inquiry into the case. Given the record before us, the defendant is not being asked to range over a six mile stretch of roadway or check a score of manhole covers or several rest areas to try to locate where it was that the plaintiff fell and was injured.”
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.