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← 296 MASS 574 - Long v. George

Long v. George’s Empirical Analysis

1937

Citation profile

119
cited by 119 later decisions
4
states following
September 2021
most recently cited

119 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Hancock (2006), Johnson v. Abdullah (Slip Opinion) (2021)

119 state decisions

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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 In re Potts · Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Bresnick v. Heath · The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · National Brake & Electric Co. v. Christensen

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

  1. “a view or action that no conscientious judge, acting intelligently, could have honestly taken.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “In actions at law, “Unless he (the judge) shall have refused to exercise that discretion in favor of the. . .party under circumstances the proved existence of which required that for some legal reason he should do so, or unless he has refused to receive and consider evidence by which that discretion should be guided or controlled, his decision cannot be elsewhere reviewed. Commonwealth v. White, 147 Mass. 76, 78 .”
    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.