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94 Mass. App. Ct. 439 - Leighton v. Hallstrom’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commercial Wharf East Condominium Ass'n v. Waterfront Parking Corp. · Hopkins v. Hopkins · T.F. v. B.L. · Kerins v. Lima · O'Rourke v. Hunter

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “were so evanescent as to vanish as soon as they were created”
    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.