22 Mass. App. Ct. 306 - Roche v. Roche’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably TLT Construction Corp. v. A. Anthony Tappe & Associates, Inc. (1999), 30 Mass. App. Ct. 393 - Saint Louis v. Baystate Medical Center, Inc. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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 Southwest Airlines Co. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. · Isaac v. Schwartz · Mackintosh v. Chambers · 10 Mass. App. Ct. 246 - Mongeau v. Boutelle · Almeida v. Travelers Insurance
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.
“Since [defendant] played no role directly or vicariously in the [prior litigation], we are of the opinion that he is not entitled to claim a benefit from the judgment in that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person who is not a party to the prior action but whose interest is represented by a party may have the benefit of the judgment in the prior case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[rle-alistically appraised, ... the prospects for success in altering the scope and nature of the action so late in the day would be daunting”
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.