MacDougall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Packaging Industries Group, Inc. v. Cheney · Soja v. T. P. Sampson Co. · Commissioner of Correction v. Superior Court Department of the Trial Court · Cobb v. Aytch
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be used sparingly, and 'should be exercised only in exceptional circumstances and where necessary to protect substantive rights in the absence of an alternative, effective remedy.'”
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.