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← 50 MASSAPPCT 6 - Spencer v. Doyle

Spencer v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Flesner v. Technical Communications Corp. · 8 Mass. App. Ct. 498 - Levings v. Forbes & Wallace, Inc. · Pan American World Airways, Inc. v. Shulman Transport Enterprises, Inc. · Hudson v. Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Ass'n

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. “there must exist some commercial relationship between the parties or the plaintiffs must demonstrate that the defendants' actions interfered with trade or commerce.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “may encompass conduct which amounts to . . . misrepresentation”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “minor or insignificant business relationship”
    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.