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← 434 MASS 543 - Baker v. Parsons

Baker v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

75
cited by 75 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Fabre v. Walton (2002), Office One, Inc. v. Lopez (2002)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 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 Duracraft Corp. v. Holmes Products Corp. · In re Hill · Consolidated Cigar Corp. v. Department of Public Health · Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board · Protect Our Mountain Environment, Inc. v. District Court in & for the County of Jefferson

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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the moving party's [ (the hospital's) ] exercise of its right to petition was devoid of any reasonable factual support or any arguable basis in law and (2) the moving party's [ (the hospital's) ] acts caused actual injury to the responding party [ (the nurses) ].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the court shall consider the pleadings and supporting and opposing affidavits stating the facts upon which the liability or defense is based.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “lawsuit[ ] directed at individual citizens of modest means for speaking publicly against development projects.”
    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.