Webster v. Perrotta’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions

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

1. “In matters of statutory interpretation our ultimate goal is to give effect to the purpose of the act as intended by the Legislature.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blais v. R.I. Airport Corp. · D'AMICO v. Johnston Partners

2. “Whenever ... any police officer [or] fire fighter ... of any city ... is wholly or partially incapacitated by reason of injuries received ... in the performance of his or her duties ..., the respective city ... by which the police officer [or] fire fighter ... is employed, shall, during the period of the incapacity, pay the police officer [or] fire fighter ... the salary or wage and benefits to which the police officer [or] fire fighter ... would be entitled had he or she not been incapacitated, and shall pay the medical [expenses] for the necessary period.... In addition, the cities ... shall pay all similar expenses incurred by a member who has been placed on a disability, pension and suffers a recurrence of the injury or illness that dictated his or her disability retirement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cahoon v. Shelton

3. “there exists 'a valid and an enforceable collective-bargaining agreement whose terms provide greater * * * benefits than is afforded by the special legislation,' * * * [then] the provision of the collective bargaining agreement takes precedence over the special act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Town of Cumberland v. Cumberland Town Employees Union