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22 Mass. App. Ct. 306 - Roche v. Roche’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “[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.