Alphas Co. v. Kilduff’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
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.
“traditionally, discovery activities have not provided grounds for abuse of process actions in Massachusetts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scholz v. Goudreau“curtailing [of] discovery activities[ ] would be inconsistent with the spirit of Mass. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scholz v. Goudreau
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.