30 Mass. App. Ct. 53 - Lobosco v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2018
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 2 Mass. App. Ct. 722 - Cellucci v. Sun Oil Co. · Tristram's Landing, Inc. v. Wait · Rigs v. Sokol · Capezzuto v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. · 8 Mass. App. Ct. 367 - Kinchla v. Welsh
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is fundamental that a promisor may not avoid his promised performance based on the nonoccurrence of a condition, where the promisor has himself hindered or prevented its occurrence.”
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.