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← 319 MASS 560 - Vincent v. Plecker

Vincent v. Plecker’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Borman v. Borman (1979), Brum v. Town of Dartmouth (1999)

3 federal appellate · 53 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 Catlin v. United States · Pullman Co. v. Jenkins · Collins v. Miller · Reeves v. Beardall · Geer v. Mathieson Alkali Works

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

  1. “If [defendant] had owned the two lots in question, and had knowingly permitted the plaintiff to buy them from the town, without disclosing her own title, doubtless she would be estopped to set up her title against him.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Michael J. Colarusso Mary Colarusso, Debtors, Robert Canzano, Trustee of the J & B Realty Trust Joan Canzano, Trustee of the J & B Realty Trust v. Mary M. Ragosa · Colarusso v. M
  2. “Though part of a single controversy remains undetermined, if the decree is to be executed presently, so that appeal would be futile unless the decree could be vacated by the prompt entry of an appeal in the full court, the decree is a final one.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Patel v. Martin
  3. “a party ought not to have the power to interrupt the progress of the litigation by piecemeal appeals that cause delay and often waste judicial effort in deciding questions that will turn out to be unimportant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 39 - Citadel Realty, LLC v. Endeavor Capital North, LLC

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.