19 Mass. App. Ct. 411 - Serody v. Serody’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Goulet v. Whitin MacHine Works, Inc. (1987), 33 Mass. App. Ct. 18 - Hull v. Attleboro Savings Bank (1992)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 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 Peterson v. Hopson · Borman v. Borman · W. T. Grant Company v. Mark S. Haines, and John A. Christensen · Schuler v. Schuler · 524 F. Supp. 1205 - MacArthur v. Bank of New York
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perhaps the paradigm for compelled withdrawal of counsel is when a lawyer gives testimony against his client. Wigmore had little doubt on this score and a source he cited had less: “Mr. Solicitor, to his eternal disgrace, and to the eternal disgrace of the Court who permitted such an outrage on decency, left the bar and presented himself as a witness for the Crown.” 6 Wigmore, Evidence, Sec. 1911, at 773-74 & n.2 (Chadbourn rev. 1976), quoting 2 Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors 61 (4th ed. 1856).”
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.