Tetrault v. Mahoney’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“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.