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← 304 MASS 659 - Dearden v. Hey

Dearden v. Hey’s Empirical Analysis

1939

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
9
states following
December 1998
most recently cited

49 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Cousineau v. Laramee (1983), Parrell v. Keenan (1983)

49 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 McLearn v. Hill · Bliss v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc. v. H. D. Watts Co. · Chelsea Moving & Trucking Co. v. Ross Towboat Co. · Doran v. Cohen

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

  1. “[D]amages resulting from a single tort ... are, when suffered by one person, the subject of only one suit as against the wrongdoer.”
    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.