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22 Mass. App. Ct. 672 - Wasserman v. Agnastopoulos’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

74
cited by 74 later decisions
1
states following
September 2015
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Gooley v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1988), 28 Mass. App. Ct. 108 - USM Corp. v. Arthur D. Little Systems, Inc. (1989)

14 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 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 PMP Associates, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co. · 8 Mass. App. Ct. 498 - Levings v. Forbes & Wallace, Inc. · Linthicum v. Archambault · International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson · 2 Mass. App. Ct. 722 - Cellucci v. Sun Oil Co.

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[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
  2. “the penumbra of some ... established concept of unfairness,”
    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.