Piepul v. Bryson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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 7 Mass. App. Ct. 426 - Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co. · 22 Mass. App. Ct. 426 - Greenleaf v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority · Opinion of the Justices to the Governor
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"on notice that, unless the court orders otherwise, the interrogatories must be answered within the next thirty days or the machinery which produces final judgment may begin to engage in earnest. A posture of relaxation at that point is perilous, however much the day-to-day culture among lawyers tends toward a relaxed attitude about the rigors of the rules."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The ... judge, on the basis of the criteria discussed in Berube ..., could, in the exercise of her discretion, have granted the plaintiff's motion ... but the judge was not compelled to do so. We shall not disturb the judge's denial of that motion”
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.