29 Mass. App. Ct. 621 - Boudreau v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably McLaughlin v. Board of Selectmen (1996), 32 Mass. App. Ct. 601 - Cheever v. Graves (1992)
26 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 First Pennsylvania Mortgage Trust v. Dorchester Savings Bank · Goldstein v. Beal · Labounty v. Vickers · Murphy v. Mart Realty of Brockton, Inc. · Mt. Holyoke Realty Corp. v. Holyoke Realty Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“providing the acts relied upon are not so remote in time or so disconnected with the deed 'as to forbid the inference that they had relation to it as parts of the same transaction or were made in explanation or characterization of it.'”
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.