Stapleton v. MacChi’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
4 district · 16 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 Hartmann v. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp. · Raunela v. Hertz Corp. · 17 Mass. App. Ct. 558 - Brown v. Gerstein · D'Annolfo v. Stoneham Housing Authority · Miles v. Edward O. Tabor, M.D., Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing [a] judgment [notwithstanding the verdict], we consider the facts and inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the plaintiff to determine if 'anywhere in the evidence, from whatever source derived, any combination of circumstances could be found from which a reasonable inference could be drawn in favor of the plaintiff.'”
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.