Keegan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2024
23 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
Relies on United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Evangelical United Brethren Church v. State · People v. Bachert · Whitney v. City of Worcester · Baum v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Does the challenged act, omission, or decision necessarily involve a basic governmental policy, program, or objective? (2) Is the questioned act, omission, or decision essential to the realization or accomplishment of that policy, program, or objective as opposed to one which would not change the course or direction of the policy, program, or objective? (3) Does the act, omission, or decision require the exercise of basic policy evaluation, judgment, and expertise on the part of the governmental agency involved? (4) Does the governmental agency involved possess the requisite constitutional, statutory, or lawful authority and duty to do or make the challenged act, omission, or decision?”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the injury arises out of, in connection with, or results from ... the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function, whether or not the discretion is abused.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“which concern routine, everyday matters, not requiring evaluation of broad policy factors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.