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← 425 MASS 456 - Tetrault v. Mahoney

Tetrault v. Mahoney’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

131
cited by 131 later decisions
2
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

33 district · 93 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Kurker v. Hell (1998), Cuddyer v. Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. (2001)

33 district · 93 state decisions

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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 Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Agis v. Howard Johnson 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In order adequately to establish a claim ... for undue influence, a plaintiff must establish that the defendant overcame the will of the grantor. ... Undue influence involves some form of compulsion which coerces a person into doing something the person does not want to do.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the proper party to assert a c. 93A claim against an attorney is a client or someone acting on a client’s behalf.”
    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.