Wolfe v. Gormally’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth (2014), DiFiore v. American Airlines, Inc. (2009)
1 district · 45 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 Sterilite Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co. · Commercial Wharf East Condominium Ass'n v. Waterfront Parking Corp. · Commonwealth v. Lydon · Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Debral Realty, Inc. v. DiChiara
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiffs are now required to obtain judicial authorization before recording a memorandum of lis pendens, which `any party aggrieved' may contest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hewitt v. Rice“to make it an effectual piece of legislation in harmony with common sense and sound reason”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“add procedural safeguards to the formerly unfettered right to record a lis pendens,”
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.