Alpert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Lane v. First National Bank of Boston (1989), S & M Constructors, Inc. v. City of Columbus (1982)
6 federal appellate · 27 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 United States v. Spearin · Hollerbach v. United States · Christie v. United States · Faber v. . City of New York · 65 Cal. 2d 787 - EH Morrill Co. v. State of California
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In these circumstances, Golden (the contractor) had every reason to believe that it was given all the information the D.P.W. possessed with regard to the conditions at the site and the amount of work ... that would be required to complete the construction of the highway. However, the D.P.W. had not disclosed all the information in its possession. Alpert v. Commonwealth, 357 Mass. 306, 319 , 258 N.E.2d 755, 763 (1970).”
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.