11 Mass. App. Ct. 317 - Perkins v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Puritan Medical Center, Inc. v. Cashman (1992), Inn Foods Inc US v. Equitable Co-Operative Bank (1995)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Wormstead v. Town Manager of Saugus · Kidder v. Greenman · Kelley v. Newburyport & Amesbury Horse Railroad · Boice-Perrine Co. v. Kelley · 4 Mass. App. Ct. 182 - Michelson v. Aronson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purposely shut[s] his eyes to means of information within his own possession and control.”
3 later decisions 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.