22 Mass. App. Ct. 126 - McDonnell v. Quirk’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bolden v. O'Connor Café of Worcester, Inc. (2000), Cruz Management Co. v. Thomas (1994)
24 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 Answer of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Tyler v. Judges of Court of Registration · Konstantopoulos v. Town of Whately · Debral Realty, Inc. v. DiChiara · Kozdras v. Land/Vest Properties, 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.
“Although motions to intervene after judgment are seldom 'timely,' ... they may be allowed if the proposed intervener demonstrates a strong justification for intervention after judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[u]nder the law of the Commonwealth, 'a purchase and sale agreement bestows a significant interest upon the buyer.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.