John Scarpa v. William Murphy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• court will not second- guess officer’s decision to not wait for backup assistance where to have done so could be construed as a shirking of their duty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dedham Water Co., Inc. v. Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1992-08-18· cited 179×
• Coghlan v. Starkey
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-08-08· cited 138×
• Ipcia M. Kercado-Melendez v. Awilda Aponte-Roque, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1987-09-22· cited 115×
• Bankr. L. Rep. P 72,300 in Re San Juan Hotel Corporation, Debtor. Hans Lopez-Stubbe v. Hector Rodriguez-Estrada
  First Circuit· 1988-05-18· cited 66×
• United States v. James Gilliard A/K/A Jimmy Gillard
  First Circuit· 1988-05-26· cited 64×
• Applewood Landscape & Nursery Co., Inc. v. Wayne B. Hollingsworth
  First Circuit· 1989-09-13· cited 59×
• Edna Acosta-Sepulveda v. Pedro Hernandez-Purcell
  First Circuit· 1989-11-08· cited 43×
• United States v. John Wheelwright
  First Circuit· 1990-10-18· cited 42×
• Jose A. Hernandez-Tirado v. Mariano Artau, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1989-05-15· cited 40×
• Nicholas Apostol v. United States
  First Circuit· 1988-02-11· cited 15×
• Colon v. Casco, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 1989-06-13· cited 5×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 9,383×
• Bruce B. Landrigan v. City of Warwick
  First Circuit· 1980-08-27· cited 274×
• Oxford Shipping Co., Ltd. v. New Hampshire Trading Corp., Oxford Shipping Co., Ltd. v. New Hampshire Trading Corp., Avon Trading Corp.
  First Circuit· 1983-01-20· cited 39×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,621 Securities and Exchange Commission v. James E. MacDonald Jr.
  First Circuit· 1984-01-11· cited 8×