5 Mass. App. Ct. 679 - White v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2006
3 district · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. · Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co. · George v. Jordan Marsh Company · DesLauries v. Shea
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all allegations are to be taken as true, and the inferences to be drawn therefrom should be in favor of the pleader,” Romano v. Sacknoff, 4 Mass. App. Ct. 862 (1976), and that”
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.