Capazzoli v. Holzwasser

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• we “look to the expressions of the Legislature and to those of this court” to determine pubhc pohcy
• contract in consideration of plaintiff’s abandonment of her marriage held unenforceable “on a contract, quantum meruit, or any other theory”
• man’s promise to support a woman if she abandoned or promised to abandon her marriage to another man violated public policy
• contract in consideration of plaintiffs abandonment of her marriage held unenforceable ‘on a contract, quantum meruit, or any other theory’
• contract requiring individual to abandon marriage unenforceable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schaer v. Brandeis University
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-09-25· cited 255×
• Miller v. Cotter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-03-30· cited 141×
• Jean W. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-03-08· cited 102×
• New England Insulation Co. v. General Dynamics Corp.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-05-11· cited 69×
• Connerty v. Metropolitan District Commission
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-05· cited 62×
• Arcidi v. National Ass'n of Government Employees, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-11-07· cited 61×
• A.Z. v. B.Z.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-03-31· cited 59×
• Feeney v. Dell Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-07-02· cited 58×
• T.F. v. B.L.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-08-25· cited 43×
• Ritchie v. Department of State Police
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-03-19· cited 42×
• Wilcox v. Trautz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-21· cited 31×
• Cacciola v. Nellhaus
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-07-31· cited 17×
• Daynard v. Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, P.A.
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-12-03· cited 12×
• L-3 Communications Corp. v. Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2004-12-02· cited 1×
• Brown v. DePuy Spine, Inc.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2007-04-09· cited 1×
• Alvares v. Microsoft Corp.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2001-07-06
• Tankanow v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2007-05-02
• Surabian v. Melone
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1988-07-19

Cites

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

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Foman v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1962-12-03· cited 17,205×
• Nader v. Citron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-03-08· cited 690×
• Spellens v. Spellens
  California Supreme Court· 1957-10-30· cited 143×
• Spence v. Boston Edison Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-12-15· cited 119×
• Green v. Richmond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-11-10· cited 116×
• George v. Jordan Marsh Company
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-04-12· cited 95×
• Auster Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Matilda Gray Stream
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-07-01· cited 87×
• Lewis v. Lewis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-07-09· cited 86×
• Rizzo v. Cunningham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-04-12· cited 72×
• Willis Ray Triplett v. Leflore County, Oklahoma
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-07-18· cited 68×
• Guenard v. Burke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-12-30· cited 65×
• Myrtle S. Shull and Walter G. Shull v. Pilot Life Insurance Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1963-02-06· cited 52×
• Three Juveniles v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-11-07· cited 52×
• Osborne v. Osborne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-11-13· cited 49×
• French v. McAnarney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-05-01· cited 49×
• Jenkins v. Jenkins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-02-02· cited 41×
• Glickman v. Collins
  California Supreme Court· 1975-04-02· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Stowell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-13· cited 19×
• M. Aschheim Co. v. Turkanis
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-12-30· cited 9×