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← 64 MASSAPPCT 868 - Salten v. Ackerman

Salten v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Beaupre v. Cliff Smith & Associates · Drapek v. Drapek · 20 Mass. App. Ct. 811 - Grubert v. Grubert · Baccanti v. Morton · Kittredge v. Kittredge

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

  1. “[t]rial judges have 'extensive discretion ... with respect to both the process of discovery and the admission of evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “judge is entitled, barring special circumstances, to draw all reasonable inferences against a party who fails to do so”
    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.