21 Mass. App. Ct. 254 - Wolfe v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Markham v. Fay (1996), Lauricella v. Lauricella (1991)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 633 - State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Reiser · Kerwin v. Donaghy · Ware v. Gulda · Sullivan v. Burkin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... now can reach the maximum amount which (at his request or otherwise) may be reached by, or paid to, (the settlor) under the terms of the trust. It has long been established that creditors can reach such a settlor’s trust to that extent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markham v. Fay
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.