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← 464 MASS 205 - Clair v. Clair

Clair v. Clair’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited

1 district · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Upjohn Company v. United States · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · G.S. Enterprises, Inc. v. Falmouth Marine, Inc.

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

  1. “An appellate court may affirm a correct result based on reasons that are different from those articulated by the judge below”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “as a general principle, that a litigant may implicitly waive the attorney-client privilege, at least partly, by injecting certain claims or defenses into a case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “By definition, it is a limited waiver of the privilege with respect to what has been put 'at issue.'”
    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.