Sommi v. Ayer’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frizado v. Frizado · Custody of Vaughn · Pyle v. School Committee · Zullo v. Goguen · Smith v. Joyce
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] court may issue a mutual restraining order or mutual no-contact order pursuant to any abuse prevention action only if the court has made specific written findings of fact.”
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.