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← 72 MASSAPPCT 104 - Alphas Co. v. Kilduff

Alphas Co. v. Kilduff’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 7 U.S.C. § 499A (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act)

Relies on Community National Bank v. Dawes · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · DataComm Interface v. COMPUTERWORLD, INC. ADELSON · Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Resolution Trust Corporation v. North Bridge Associates Inc

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

  1. “traditionally, discovery activities have not provided grounds for abuse of process actions in Massachusetts,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “curtailing [of] discovery activities[ ] would be inconsistent with the spirit of Mass. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1).”
    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.