Callahan v. Callahan’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
1 district · 20 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 Iamele v. Asselin · Crenshaw v. Macklin · Champagne v. Champagne · MacDonald v. Caruso · 64 Mass. App. Ct. 479 - Vittone v. Clairmont
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discerning appraisal of the continued need for an abuse prevention order to protect the plaintiff from the impact of the violence already inflicted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judge may reasonably conclude that there is a continued need for the order because the damage resulting from that physical harm affects the victim even when further physical attack is not reasonably imminent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether seeking an initial abuse prevention order under G. L. c. 209A or a later extension, the burden is on the plaintiff to establish facts justifying issuance, or continuance, by a preponderance of the evidence.”
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.