Whitcomb v. Pension Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 167 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2012
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc. · Franklin v. Albert · Olsen v. BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, W. ELECTRIC CO. · Dinsky v. Town of Framingham · 10 Mass. App. Ct. 99 - Frank Cooke, Inc. v. Hurwitz
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.
“that the defendants made representations they knew or should have known would induce the plaintiffs to put off bringing a suit and that the plaintiffs did in fact delay in reliance on the representations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.