Shaev v. Alvord’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Feltch v. General Rental Co. · Chu Tai v. City of Boston · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 415 - Bernard v. United Brands Co. · 35 Mass. App. Ct. 570 - Standard Register Co. v. Bolton-Emerson, Inc. · BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. v. City Council
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“excusable neglect is meant to apply to circumstances that are unique or extraordinary, not to any 'garden-variety oversight.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“simply not factors that are relevant to an analysis whether the neglect involved was excusable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the client should not suffer the consequences of the lawyer's neglect.”
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.