93 Mass. App. Ct. 603 - Bonaparte v. Devoti’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Picciotto v. Continental Casualty Co. · Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Adoption of Edmund · Brantley v. Hampden Division of the Probate & Family Court Department
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge made 'a clear error of judgment in weighing' the factors relevant to the decision ... such that the decision falls outside the range of reasonable alternatives”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a mandatory factor for the judge to consider”
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.