27 Mass. App. Ct. 596 - Shapiro v. Grinspoon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Shea v. BAY STATE GAS CO. CAMP DRESSER & McKEE INC. · Begelfer v. Najarian · Vines v. Orchard Hills, Inc. · Clark v. State Street Trust Co. · A-Z Servicenter, Inc. v. Segall
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here actual damages are difficult to ascertain and where the sum agreed upon by the parties at the time of the execution of the contract represents a reasonable estimate of the actual damages...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a business transaction entered into by practical [people] to accomplish an honest and straightforward end.”
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.