Champigny v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ruiz v. Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. (2007), Noonan v. Staples, Inc. (2009)
4 federal appellate · 66 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 Logarusic v. United States · Selectmen of Topsfield v. State Racing Commission · Attorney General v. School Committee of Essex · Commonwealth v. Galvin · American Family Life Assurance Co. v. Commissioner of Insurance
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe a statute in accord with 'the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, to the end that the purpose of its framers may be effectuated.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gray · Commonwealth v. Kelly“[W]hen a literal reading of a statute would be inconsistent with legislative intent, we look beyond the words of the statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assume the Legislature intended to act reasonably”
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.