21 Mass. App. Ct. 299 - Anthony v. Anthony’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Avery v. Steele (1993), 26 Mass. App. Ct. 385 - Apahouser Lock & Security Corp. v. Carvelli (1988)
26 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 Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Tisdale v. United States · Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Borman v. Borman · Cole v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There [is] little point in having an appeal work its way up the ladder from a judgment which might be altered”
2 later decisions 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.