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← 1982 MASSAPPDIV 256 - Chicoine v. Sonneman

Chicoine v. Sonneman’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1990
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Herbert J. Roberts v. Norman M. Ross, Jr · Haines Corp. v. Winthrop Square Cafe, Inc. · Burick v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Lowe & Mogilnicki v. Brownville · 59 Mass. App. Dec. 164 - Milford National Bank & Trust Co. v. Brown

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “There are few propositions of more pervasive precendental impact than the rule which provides that a party may not raise and argue on appeal, as of right, legal issues where no requests for rulings addressing those issues have been filed with the trial court.... [A] trial judge ought to be apprised directly and pointedly of those legal issues which a party is pressing and which if resolved adversely to his position will be argued on appeal. Fairness and orderliness require that such issues be framed and focused precisely for a frequently busy trial judge so that the judge may address them with deliberation as well as dispatch.”
    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.