O'Connell v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1994
1 district · 4 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 Bartley v. Phillips · Commonwealth v. Sacco · Kerr v. Palmieri · Smith v. Freedman · Murray v. Foster
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the ad damnum in the writ does not exceed two thousand dollars, the case shall be tried in the district court and the defendant shall, if he desires trial by the superior court, file said entry fee and bond within ten days after notice of the decision or finding. Such filing shall have the same effect as a request for retransfer under section one-hundred-and-two-C, and the decision shall be transmitted to and the case tried in the superior court subject to the provisions of one-hundred-and-two-C applicable to retransferred cases.””
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.