16 Mass. App. Ct. 83 - Davis v. Walent’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2015
2 district · 16 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 Bartley v. Phillips · Altman v. Aronson · Stone v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Lynn Gas & Electric Co. v. Meriden Fire Insurance · Refrigeration Discount Corp. v. Catino
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of licensing operators of automobiles is to make it reasonably certain that the licensee is qualified for the task and a proper person to be licensed ... Negligent operation of an automobile endangering the safety of other travellers is likely to follow if an unlicensed person is given complete control of its operation.”
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.