Assuncao's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Martin v. Ring (1987), Murphy v. Administrator of the Division of Personnel Administration (1979)
53 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 East Chop Tennis Club v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination · Joseph Giacobbe v. First Coolidge Corp. · Sydney v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation · Broderick's Case · Kargman v. Superior Court
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““is a sound principle of law and jurisprudence aimed at preserving the integrity of both the administrative and judicial processes. In the absence of such a requirement a court would be in the position of reviewing administrative proceedings in a piecemeal fashion, Broderick’s Case, 320 Mass. 149, 151 (1946) .... More important, however, allowing the administrative process to run its course before permitting full appellate review gives the administrative agency in question a full and fair opportunity to apply its expertise to the statutory scheme which, by law, it has the primary responsibility of enforcing. East Chop Tennis Club v. Massachusetts Comm’n Against Discrimination, 364 Mass. 444 (1973).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to expedite compensation claims without the necessity of a full hearing.”
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.