Commonwealth v. Reske’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 district · 8 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 McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. · Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp. · Commonwealth v. Beckett · 31 Mass. App. Ct. 390 - Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp. · Graphic Arts Finishers, Inc. v. Boston Redevelopment Authority
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary to have direct evidence that a representation was false. It is enough if all the circumstances considered together would warrant the [fact finder] in concluding that it was untrue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] false pretense may be made by implication as well as by verbal declaration.”
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.