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← 81 MASSAPPCT 430 - Guzman v. Pring-Wilson

Guzman v. Pring-Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

12 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jupin v. Kask · Niskanen v. Giant Eagle, Inc. · Goldstein v. Gontarz · Commonwealth v. Porro · Commonwealth v. Tarrant

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.

  1. “[A]n assault at common law is an act done with the intention of causing 'a harmful or offensive contact with the person of the other ..., or an imminent apprehension of such a contact [if] ... the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension.”
    2 later decisions 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.