24 Mass. App. Ct. 644 - Ladd v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
November 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 9 Mass. App. Ct. 286 - Atlantic Savings Bank v. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. · Mills v. Blakelin · Best v. Williams · Bates v. Bates · Gottsch v. Ireland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant cannot rely upon the declaration of homestead to defeat or frustrate the right of her tenants in common to partition the tenancy”
2 later decisions 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.