24 Mass. App. Ct. 296 - Bump v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Arthur Little Inc v. Dooyang Corporation (1998), Milliken & Co. v. Duro Textiles, LLC (2008)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 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 Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. · My Bread Baking Co. v. Cumberland Farms, Inc. · Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Linthicum v. Archambault
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is evidence of out-of-pocket expenditures for travel and long-distance telephone calls, time spent at meetings and in other related activities, and the usual charges Bump made for his time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“has engaged in bad faith dealing, or some other misconduct which prevents an agreement between the broker's client and the seller, or which suggests a purpose on the part of the seller to obtain without payment a profit from the broker's exertions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by their very nature, entail a high risk of noncompensation. It is not at all uncommon for a broker to perform services for which he is not compensated.”
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.