30 Mass. App. Ct. 78 - Parrish v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Kobayashi v. Orion Ventures, Inc. (1997), 32 Mass. App. Ct. 203 - Squeri v. McCarrick (1992)
29 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 Robert Industries, Inc. v. Spence · 28 Mass. App. Ct. 108 - USM Corp. v. Arthur D. Little Systems, Inc. · Knox v. Remick · Trustees of the Stigmatine Fathers, Inc. v. Secretary of Administration & Finance · Schuler v. Schuler
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to understand the subject matter of the agreement, to the extent it is doubtful or ambiguous, we resort to the conduct of the parties to determine 'the meaning that they themselves put upon any doubtful or ambiguous terms'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining whether or not the parties' separation agreement survives a judgment of divorce, it is the intent of the parties”
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.