Elliott v. Warwick Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he authority of the Appellate Division is ‘limited to the review of rulings which have been reported and to matters of law arising in connection with the making of reports’ ”
• not an abuse of process to institute legal proceedings to collect a debt dischargeable in bankruptcy; a debt is not extinguished by a discharge in bankruptcy; the remedy and the legal obligation to pay are at an end, but debt itself not can-celled

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

59 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jones v. Brockton Public Markets, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-12-31· cited 92×
• Heil v. McCann
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-11-17· cited 67×
• Macone Bros. v. Strauss
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1997-06-20· cited 48×
• Clipper Affiliates, Inc. v. Checovich
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1994-03-15· cited 47×
• Bushnell v. Bushnell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-12-11· cited 45×
• Farmers Gin Company v. Ward
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1964-01-27· cited 34×
• Worcester County National Bank v. Brogna
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-08· cited 34×
• Cooperstein v. Turner Bros. Construction
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1992-12-18· cited 33×
• Addis v. Steele
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-04-25· cited 28×
• First Safety Fund National Bank v. Friel
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-03-04· cited 25×
• Worldwide Commodities, Inc. v. J. Amicone Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-03-31· cited 24×
• Adams v. Whitman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-02-03· cited 23×
• McMurray v. U-Haul Co., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-02-02· cited 20×
• Groden v. Kelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-21· cited 18×
• Sullivan v. Aussebel
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1968-01-18· cited 15×
• Clark v. Trumble
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-03-18· cited 14×
• Webster v. Kowal
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-04-08· cited 9×
• Gaston Electric Co. v. American Construction Co., Inc., United States
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-12-04· cited 9×
• Geraghty v. Mott's Shop-Rite of Holyoke, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-07· cited 8×
• Burnham v. MacWhinnie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-12-30· cited 6×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bresnick v. Heath
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-10-31· cited 313×
• Commonwealth v. Curnin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-01-24· cited 124×
• Adamaitis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-09-08· cited 102×
• Himelfarb v. Novadel Agene Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-03-25· cited 64×
• Citizens Loan Ass'n v. Boston & Maine Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-11-26· cited 46×
• Castaline v. Swardlick
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-09-20· cited 27×
• E. S. Parks Shellac Co. v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1921-01-15· cited 22×
• Johnson v. Reed
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1884-01-31· cited 21×
• Westminster National Bank v. Graustein
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-03-13· cited 20×
• Noyes v. Shanahan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-04-04· cited 17×
• Champion v. Buckingham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1896-01-01· cited 17×
• Lane v. Holcomb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1903-01-05· cited 12×
• Vrusho v. Vrusho
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1927-01-07· cited 11×
• Wexler v. Davis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-03-28· cited 5×