34 Mass. App. Ct. 299 - Halper v. Demeter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Tech Plus, Inc. v. Ansel (2003), Richards v. Arteva Specialties S.A.R.L. (2006)
12 district · 20 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 Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Nader v. Citron · Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. · United Truck Leasing Corp. v. Geltman · International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who engages in the conduct of any trade or commerce and who suffers any loss of money or property, real or personal, as a result of the use or employment by another person who engages in any trade or commerce of ... an unfair or deceptive act or practice declared unlawful by section two ... may ... bring an action. ...”
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.