Ahern v. Scholz’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 774 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 31 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Nieves-Villanueva v. Soto-Rivera (1997), Arthur Little Inc v. Dooyang Corporation (1998)
38 federal appellate · 31 district · 12 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · O'NEAL v. McAninch · United States v. Zannino · Sisson v. Ruby
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although whether a particular set of acts, in their factual setting, is unfair or deceptive is a question of fact, the boundaries of what may qualify for consideration as a [Chapter] 93A violation is a question of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'within at least the penumbra of some common-law, statutory, or other established concept of unfairness' or [be] 'immoral, unethical, oppressive or unscrupulous,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he statute does not contemplate an overly precise standard of ethical or moral behavior. It is the standard of the commercial marketplace.”
3 later decisions 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.