88 Mass. App. Ct. 745 - Jaynes’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Rubinovitz v. Rogato · Attorney General v. Desilets
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a prisoner's right to a name change is at issue, the public interests at stake are heightened, particularly if the prisoner may be paroled in the future.”
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.