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← 389 Mass. 809 - Parrell v. Keenan

Parrell v. Keenan’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

79
cited by 79 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 77 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Powers v. H.B. Smith Co. (1997), Bird v. Ross (1985)

2 district · 77 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 Klapprott v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Bridwell v. United States · Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Hudson v. Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Ass'n

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

  1. “whether the moving party has a meritorious claim or defense ... whether extraordinary circumstances warrant relief ... and whether the substantial rights of the parties in the matter in controversy will be affected by granting the motion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A motion pursuant to rule 60 [b] [6] is addressed to the discretion of the judge”
    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.