8 Mass. App. Ct. 541 - Davidson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Cherella v. Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (1992), 9 Mass. App. Ct. 477 - S. Kemble Fischer Realty Trust v. Board of Appeals (1980)
25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · United States v. Causby · Community National Bank v. Dawes
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The commissioner, with the approval of the public health council, may establish procedures to be followed during such emergency to insure the continuation of essential public health services and the enforcement of the same.”
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.