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← 441 MASS 211 - Commonwealth v. Deberry

Commonwealth v. Deberry’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi · Hanlon v. Rollins · Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n v. City of Boston · Commonwealth v. Roucoulet

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

  1. “[W]here damage is caused to a portion of the property as a whole and may be replaced or repaired, the value of the property is to be measured by the pecuniary loss, in this case the reasonable cost of repair necessitated by the malicious conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “amendments to the statute in 1978 expanded personal property covered by the statute to encompass real property, i.e., 'dwelling house' or 'building.' See St. 1978, c. 544 . . .”
    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.