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← 448 MASS 603 - In re Hilson

In re Hilson’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
2
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 19 district · 17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Linthicum v. Archambault · In re Disbarment of Passman · Boston Edison Co. v. Boston Redevelopment Authority · Answer of the Justices to the Senate · In the Matter of Alter

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.

  1. “An escrow agreement consists of the delivery of money or other valuable object by one party and a promise by the other to hold it until the performance of a condition or the happening of a certain event.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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