Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 210 district · 349 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 696 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (1997), Uno Restaurants, Inc. v. Boston Kenmore Realty Corp. (2004)
66 federal appellate · 210 district · 349 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 United States v. Marine Bancorporation, Inc. · Healy v. Beer Institute · Franks v. Nimmo · Simon v. Solomon · John Hetherington & Sons, Ltd. v. William Firth Co.
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 696 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct in disregard of known contractual arrangements and intended to secure benefits for the breaching party constitutes an unfair act or practice for c. 93A purposes.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“'neither party shall do anything that will have the effect of destroying or injuring the right of the other party to receive the fruits of the contract.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he rule is clear in Massachusetts that every contract is subject to an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.”
4 later decisions 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.