Keystone Freight Corp. v. Bartlett Consolidated, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Keystone’s claim was based on Bartlett’s alleged billing misconduct, not solely the filing of its collection action
• explaining that “attribution of a motive, alone, is never sufficient” to survive an anti-SLAPP motion but “‘evidence of improper action, separate and distinct from the exercise of petitioning activity, is necessary’” (citation omitted)
• “allegations of an ulterior motive unsupported by conduct independent of the petitioning activity are irrelevant to the first stage analysis”
• abuse of process claim was not based solely on special motion proponent's petitioning activity, but also on proponent's fraudulent billing practices prior to commencement of collection action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

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

• Duracraft Corp. v. Holmes Products Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-03-25· cited 245×
• Fabre v. Walton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-04-12· cited 128×
• Office One, Inc. v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-06-11· cited 98×
• Vittands v. Sudduth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-06-15· cited 89×
• Kobrin v. Gastfriend
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-01-20· cited 85×
• Wenger v. Aceto
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-03-27· cited 48×
• Mancuso v. Kinchla
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-03-03· cited 47×
• Columbia Chiropractic Group, Inc. v. Trust Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-07-08· cited 44×
• Giuffrida v. High Country Investor, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-11-24· cited 43×
• Benoit v. Frederickson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-06-25· cited 42×
• Ladd v. Polidoro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-02-04· cited 33×
• Cohen v. Hurley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-07-23· cited 31×
• Kelley v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-11-16· cited 23×
• Adams v. Whitman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-02-03· cited 23×
• Howard G. Dindo v. Harold O. Whitney
  First Circuit· 1971-11-12· cited 22×
• PGR Management Co. v. Credle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-11· cited 22×
• Yentile v. Howland
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-07-15· cited 19×
• In re the Discipline of an Attorney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-10-13· cited 18×
• National Lumber Co. v. Canton Institution for Savings
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-10-02· cited 17×
• Smith v. Consalvo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-08-22· cited 15×