28 Mass. App. Ct. 338 - Larson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 30 Mass. App. Ct. 418 - Larson v. Larson (1991), 37 Mass. App. Ct. 106 - Larson v. Larson (1994)
37 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 Yorke Management v. Castro · DeRose v. Putnam Management Co. · Furtado v. Furtado · Santa Maria v. Trotto · Nickerson v. Dowd
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to find a defendant in civil contempt there must be a clear and unequivocal command and an equally clear and undoubted disobedience”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a separation agreement sets the parties' support obligations, the language of the contract, if plain and unambiguous, must be construed in accordance with its ordinary and usual sense.”
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.