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← 467 MASS 734 - Sheehan v. Weaver

Sheehan v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
November 2022
most recently cited

2 district · 20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Linthicum v. Archambault · Ferriter v. Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc. · Franklin v. Albert · Situation Management Systems, Inc. v. Malouf, Inc. · Knapp Shoes, Inc. v. Sylvania Shoe Manufacturing Corp.

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

  1. “Our primary duty in interpreting a statute is 'to effectuate the intent of the Legislature in enacting it.'”
    3 later decisions 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.