Cobb v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2018
17 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 Paul v. United States · Evans v. Cornman · Howard v. Commissioners of Sinking Fund of Louisville · Lockhart v. Attorney General · Blake v. Massachusetts Parole Board
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not pause to consider the propriety of reporting questions to the Appeals Court concerning issues in a G.L.c. 209A proceeding. Chapter 209A has no provision concerning appellate review. We allowed direct appellate review of this case before it was moot, and have no hesitancy in deciding that, at the least, we have authority to answer the questions pursuant to our power of general superintendence of the courts (G.Lc. 211, §3 [1988 ed.)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burrill v. Burrill“'The fiction of a state within a state can have no validity to prevent the state from exercising its power over the federal area within its boundaries, so long as there is no interference with the jurisdiction asserted by the Federal Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rozan
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.