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← 47 MASSAPPCT 808 - Ben v. Schultz

Ben v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Avery v. Steele · Friedman v. Board of Registration in Medicine

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

  1. “that all or substantially all of the claims, defenses, setoffs or counterclaims, whether of a factual, legal or mixed nature, made by any party who was represented by counsel during most or all of the proceeding, were wholly insubstantial, frivolous and not advanced in good faith.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[A] statutory appeal period ... cannot be overridden by a contrary rule of court when the manner and time for effective filing of an appeal are delineated in the statute”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “within ten days after receiving notice of the decision thereon.”
    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.