Lantner v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 28 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Whitinsville Plaza, Inc. v. Kotseas (1979), Linthicum v. Archambault (1979)
14 federal appellate · 28 district · 127 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 Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Commonwealth v. DeCotis · Dodd v. Commercial Union Insurance · Commonwealth v. Gove · School Committee of Springfield v. Board of Education
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“(B)oth parties have rights and liabilities established under common law principles of contract, tort, and property law. Thus, arming the `consumer' in this circumstance does not serve to equalize the positions of buyer and seller. Rather, it serves to give superior rights to only one of the parties, even though as nonprofessionals both stand on an equal footing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'where the transaction is strictly private in nature, and is in no way undertaken in the ordinary course of a trade or business.' " Id. at 602, 448 A.2d at 391-92 (quoting Lantner v. Carson, 374 Mass. 606, 610, 373 N.E.2d 973 (1978)). UCPA, § 1, likewise provides in pertinent part: IV. "Creditor”
4 later decisions 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.