McDonough v. Marr Scaffolding Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• court appropriately granted summary judgment after concluding defendant’s actions were construction activity contemplated by M.G.L. c. 260, § 2B
• breach of warranty claims that sound in tort, not contract, are barred by statute of repose
• plaintiff cannot “nullify” statute of repose by recasting negligence claim as breach of warranty claim
• an actor such as a manufacturer or supplier may be protected if that actor becomes more than a “mere” supplier by engaging in protected activities
• court appropriately granted summary judgment after concluding defendant's actions were construction activity contemplated by M.G.L. c. 260, 2B
• statute protected supplier of bleachers, where supplying the product was incidental to its primary function of performing particularized construction services in assembling and installing bleachers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• prod.liab.rep.(cch)p. 13,776 David Snow v. Harnischfeger Corporation
  First Circuit· 1994-01-26· cited 165×
• Sullivan v. Town of Brookline
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-11-14· cited 147×
• Duclersaint v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-15· cited 83×
• White v. City of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-10-16· cited 52×
• Curtis v. School Committee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-07-17· cited 31×
• Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-06-23· cited 27×
• Fine v. Huygens, DiMella, Shaffer & Associates
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-02-20· cited 22×
• Vergato v. Commercial Union Insurance
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-02-06· cited 20×
• Hurwitz v. Bocian
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-09-26· cited 17×
• Ball v. Harnischfeger Corp.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1994-06-14· cited 15×
• Rosario v. M.D. Knowlton Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-05-22· cited 14×
• Mi-Lor Corp. v. Gottsegen (In Re Mi-Lor Corp.)
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-05-07· cited 13×
• Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Construction, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-08-29· cited 13×
• Stearns v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-03-01· cited 10×
• Apple v. Tracy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-06-01· cited 9×
• Jordan v. Sandwell, Inc.
  W.D. Virginia· 2002-01-31· cited 6×
• Taveras v. Rodriquez
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 2000-02-08· cited 6×
• Saveall v. Adams
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-04-21· cited 4×
• Brown v. United States
  D. Massachusetts· 2007-09-26· cited 3×
• Stearns v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.
  District of Columbia· 2018-03-30· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-14· cited 450×
• Klein v. Catalano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-07· cited 233×
• Gaudette v. Webb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-06-05· cited 152×
• Sullivan v. Iantosca
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-04-17· cited 36×
• Conley v. Scott Products, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-02-09· cited 23×