18 Mass. App. Ct. 598 - Commonwealth v. Cola’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1992
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1101
Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · My Bread Baking Co. v. Cumberland Farms, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Canon · Commonwealth v. Iannello
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that while Mr. Cola was a representative of the Commmonwealth, a [S]tate employee, he acted on behalf of Michael Rapp ... [Paraphrasing the statute], he acted as an agent for someone other than the Commonwealth in a particular matter in which the Commonwealth has an interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cola v. Reardon“No state employee shall, otherwise than in the proper discharge of his official duties, act ... as agent ... for anyone in connection with any particular matter in which the Commonwealth ... has a direct and substantial interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cola v. Reardon“No party may assign as error the giving or failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, specifying the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cola v. Reardon
How this case has been treated — in progress
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