Martin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitney v. City of Worcester · Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Dziokonski v. Babineau · Feltch v. General Rental Co. · Vasys v. Metropolitan District Commission
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]lose scrutiny [of the cases] discloses that the 'strict compliance’ precept is concerned more with whether presentment has been made to the proper executive officer (proper party noticed) in a timely fashion (timeliness) than with the content of the presentment (adequacy of content).”
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.