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← 293 MASS 39 - Lubowitz v. Taines

Lubowitz v. Taines’s Empirical Analysis

1935

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
12
states following
June 1972
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Koplik v. C. P. Trucking Corp. (1958), Coster v. Coster (1943)

35 state decisions — followed in 12 states

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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 Nolin v. Pearson · David v. David · Gahm v. Gahm · Emerson v. Western Seed & Irrigation Co. · Cassidy v. Constantine

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “but was barred by the general disability of husband and wife to sue each other for a tort.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “her right of action was not such a thing in action as would become her separate property”
    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.