Kelley v. Iantosca’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. “'Section 2B [of G. L. c. 260] grants protection to designers, planners, builders, and the like.... It does not do so for people who sell real estate.' ... Thus, while G. L. c. 260, § 2B, bars any claim arising out of what [the defendants] did when they built the house, it does not bar claims under G. L. c. 93A arising out of misrepresentations they made about what they did.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Construction, Inc.

2. “claim is barred by the statute of repose, for although focusing on c. 93A, those allegations are sufficiently tort-like to bring them within * [ G. L. c. 260, § 2B's] ambit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Construction, Inc.

3. “those allegations * are sufficiently tort-like to bring them within the statute's ambit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Construction, Inc.