73 Mass. App. Ct. 657 - MacDonald's Case’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frennier's Case · Cornetta's Case · Phillips's Case · Castillo v. Cavicchio Greenhouses, Inc. · 21 Mass. App. Ct. 983 - Trant's Case
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to the extent such compensable injury or disease remains a major but not necessarily predominant cause of disability or need for treatment.”
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.