Ravosa v. Zais’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hastings Associates, Inc. v. Local 369 Building Fund, Inc. (1997), Klairmont v. Gainsboro Restaurant, Inc. (2013)
4 district · 25 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 McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. · 31 Mass. App. Ct. 72 - Zimmerman v. Kent · Raunela v. Hertz Corp. · Cardullo v. Landau · 37 Mass. App. Ct. 610 - VMark Software, Inc. v. EMC Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of damages flowing from misrepresentations is essential to recovery. Cardullo v. Landau, 329 Mass. 5, 7 (1952). “Where a plaintiff does not prove that he is worse off than if there had been no misrepresentation he has not made out a case of deceit.’ Connelly v. Bartlett, 286 Mass. 311, 315 (1934).”
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.