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← 78 MASSAPPCT 907 - Kelly's Case

Kelly's Case’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Fitzgibbons's Case · Coggin v. Massachusetts Parole Board · Hicks's Case · Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance v. Commonwealth · Young'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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “there was no medical evidence that the employee was permanently and totally disabled from all occupations”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “is of little use ... since one can be 'totally' disabled temporarily or permanently.”
    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.