McCarthy v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2011
6 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 Debral Realty, Inc. v. DiChiara · 5 Mass. App. Ct. 206 - Nantucket Land Coun. v. Planning Bd., Nantucket · Board of Selectmen of Pembroke v. R. & P. REALTY CORP. · Sutherland v. Aolean Development Corp. · Siegemund v. Building Commissioner
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides for notice of such litigation to the public at large by requiring the filing of notice with the town clerk of any appeal from a subdivision approval”
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.