Attorney General v. Henry

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• G. L. c. 231, § 51, “has been broadly interpreted ... so as to accomplish as to form and technical procedure whatever the justice of the case requires, unless prevented by positive rules of law”

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Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rafferty v. Sancta Maria Hospital
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1977-09-30· cited 63×
• E. S. Parks Shellac Co. v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-11-26· cited 55×
• Attorney General v. Trustees of Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-06-03· cited 40×
• Johnson v. Carroll
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-07-01· cited 33×
• Robinson v. Trustees of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-04-05· cited 31×
• Town of Reading v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-06-29· cited 23×
• Callahan v. Broadway National Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-05-26· cited 17×
• Moll v. Town of Wakefield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-02-24· cited 16×
• Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-10-18· cited 12×
• Starr v. Board of Health of Clinton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-12-01· cited 10×
• Green v. Horton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-11-30· cited 7×
• Clifford v. School Committee of Lynn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-04-02· cited 7×
• Russell v. County of Worcester
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-02-11· cited 5×
• Osetek v. City of Chicopee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-04-08· cited 5×
• Mastrangelo v. Board of Health of Watertown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-03-08· cited 3×
• Arsenault v. Bhattacharya
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-08-03· cited 3×
• Macrum v. Hawkins
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1932-05-03· cited 3×
• 1A Auto, Inc. v. Director of the Office of Campaign and Political Finance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-09-06· cited 2×
• Stedman v. City of Gardner
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1962-06-15· cited 2×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pizer v. Hunt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-09-18· cited 79×
• Eaton v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-02-26· cited 50×
• Savage v. Welch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-09-13· cited 44×
• McLaughlin v. West End Street Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1904-06-22· cited 37×
• Maker v. Bouthier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-06-27· cited 36×
• Childs v. Boston & Maine Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1912-11-25· cited 35×
• Sterling v. Frederick Leyland & Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-06-27· cited 31×
• Gaw v. Ashley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-04-02· cited 29×
• Hutchinson v. Tucker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1878-03-22· cited 23×
• Phillips v. Director General of Railroads
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-02-24· cited 23×
• Costelo v. Crowell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-02-05· cited 21×
• Merrill v. Beckwith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-02-27· cited 21×
• Lewis v. Austin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1887-05-06· cited 19×
• Sanger v. City of Newton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-02-10· cited 18×
• Fay v. Duggan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-06-22· cited 17×
• Winch v. Hosmer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-04-10· cited 16×
• Sevigny v. Russell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1927-06-29· cited 16×
• Kenney v. Consumers' Gas Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-09-11· cited 15×
• Wright v. Vermont Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-09-16· cited 15×
• Sylvester v. Webb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1901-06-01· cited 13×