Fellows v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Housing Authority v. Lamothe (1993), Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Lighthouse Landings, Inc. (2006)
171 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 National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Sturman v. Socha · McGaffin v. Roberts · Brauer v. Freccia · F. B. Fountain Co. v. Stein
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equitable defenses and counterclaims implicating the right to possession are available in a summary process proceeding.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“wholly disproportionate to the injury to the other party”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court of equity will apply the doctrine of clean hands to a tenant seeking such equitable relief; thus, a tenant whose breach was `willful' or `grossly negligent' will not be entitled to relief.”
9 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.