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← 918 A2D 1090 - Shea v. Matassa

Shea v. Matassa’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kelly v. Gwinnell · Hart v. Ivey · Brigance v. Velvet Dove Restaurant, Inc. · McGuiggan v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Johnston v. KFC National Management Co.

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

  1. “[W]e decline to create a new cause of action. We defer, as we should, to the General Assembly, which is uniquely situated to effectively examine the empirical data, hold public hearings, debate the social and economic issues implicated, and then decide whether Delaware should recognize dram shop liability.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he parties raise controversial and competing public policy questions which the General Assembly can more effectively debate, consider and resolve through the legislative process.”); Moss Rehab, v. White, 692 A.2d 902, 909 (1997) (”
    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.