21 Mass. App. Ct. 692 - Doliner v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 31 Mass. App. Ct. 390 - Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp. (1991), 95 Cal. App. 4th 1249 - Gemini Aluminum Corp. v. California Custom Shapes, Inc. (2002)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 28 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Nader v. Citron · Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Society · PMP Associates, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co. · 8 Mass. App. Ct. 498 - Levings v. Forbes & Wallace, 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts are not invited by the statute to punish every departure from 'the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive', but they may enforce standards of behavior measurably higher than perfidy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he objectionable conduct must attain a level of rascality that would raise an eyebrow of someone inured to the rough and tumble of the world of commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“attain[s] a level of rascality that would raise an eyebrow of someone inured to the rough and tumble of the world of commerce.”
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.