Massachusetts Bread Co. v. Brice’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2012
6 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 10 Mass. App. Ct. 246 - Mongeau v. Boutelle · Pierce v. Board of Appeals of Carver · Don Lorenz, Inc. v. Northampton National Bank · McCauley v. Sons Pharmacy, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The foregoing remedy shall be exclusive, notwithstanding any defect of procedure or notice other than notice by publication, mailing or posting as required by this chapter, and the validity of any action shall not be questioned for matters relating to defects in procedure or of notice in any other proceedings except with respect to such publication, mailing or posting and then only by a proceeding commenced with ninety days after the decision has been filed in the office of the city or town clerk,”
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.