Bell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1991
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brewer v. First National Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“[a]s the number in the chain of participants expands and the market for new recruits declines, the law of diminishing returns begins to operate against the interests of those who become participants late in the process. Once the market is exhausted, no participant . . . has an “opportunity to receive compensation ... in return for inducing other persons to become participants in the program.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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