Rodriguez v. Somerville’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brum v. Town of Dartmouth · Vasys v. Metropolitan District Commission · Fabre v. Walton · Sharon v. City of Newton · Kent v. Commonwealth
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On April 14, 2011, Rodrigo Rodriguez, a second grade student at the Argenziano School in [the city], was injured when a metal door frame fell off the front door of the school and struck him in the head. On May 11, 2011, an attorney representing the minor and his parent and next friend, Edgar Rodriguez, sent a letter to the mayor of [the city].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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