33 Mass. App. Ct. 240 - Cavanagh v. Cavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2015
9 district · 10 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 · Knox v. Remick · Daniels v. Newton · Monadnock Display Fireworks, Inc. v. Town of Andover · Parker v. Russell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with few exceptions, outside of the commercial law context, Massachusetts 'has not generally recognized the doctrine of anticipatory repudiation, which permits a party to a contract to bring an action for damages prior to the time performance is due if the other party repudiates.”
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.