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← 47 MASSAPPCT 737 - Clark v. Clark

Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Blakely · Hayden v. Hayden · Lena v. Commonwealth · Beit v. PROBATE & FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT

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

  1. “[o]ur task on appeal is limited solely to determining whether the judge's findings were plainly wrong”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he weight and credibility of the evidence lie within the province of the trial judge,”
    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.