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← 353 Mass. 706 - Fields v. Parsons

Fields v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019

2 district · 15 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 O'Roak v. Lloyds Casualty Co. · Caccavo v. Kearney · Gulesian v. Senibaldi · White v. Edwards

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

  1. “inform the insured of the substance of question 8A, of the nature of the 'misstatements’ discovered, or indeed, whether the question was included in the application for registration or for insurance.” The court stated that compliance with the statute was a”
    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.