4 Mass. App. Ct. 816 - Devine v. Williams Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 3 Mass. App. Ct. 19 - Limpus v. Armstrong · Preferred Underwriters, Inc. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · 1 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - American Oil Co. v. Katsikas · Kurland v. Massachusetts Amusement Corp. · 1 Mass. App. Ct. 842 - Ward v. Doucette
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Time having been of the essence and there having been no tender of performance at the appointed time, both partes were discharged.”
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.