Witty v. Dukakis

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• noting that our case law “has 4 firmly embraced the commonsensical notion that striking 5 similarities between affidavits are an indication that the 6 statements are ‘canned.’”
• “It follows that if an action against the answering defendants is 4 decided in their favor, then the action should be dismissed against both answering and 5 defaulting defendants.”

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Cited by

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

• United States v. Sepulveda
  First Circuit· 1993-12-20· cited 733×
• Air Line Pilots Association v. Precision Valley Aviation, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1994-06-07· cited 89×
• United States v. Connell
  First Circuit· 1993-10-06· cited 80×
• Center for Individual Freedom v. Carmouche
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-05-11· cited 42×
• Maher v. GSI Lumonics, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2005-12-28· cited 30×
• United States v. Rodriguez Pena
  First Circuit· 2006-12-11· cited 24×
• United States v. Henry Bros. Partnership (In Re Henry Bros. Partnership)
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-11-14· cited 23×
• Anderson v. Boston School Committee
  First Circuit· 1997-02-04· cited 20×
• Balzotti v. RAD Investments, LLC (In Re Shepherds Hill Development Co.)
  First Circuit· 2004-11-04· cited 19×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1993-12-30· cited 14×
• United States v. Romero-Lopez
  First Circuit· 2011-11-16· cited 12×
• United States v. Rodríguez-Peña
  First Circuit· 2006-12-11· cited 11×
• Poole Ex Rel. Hofmann v. Money Mortgage Corp. of America (In Re Hofmann)
  W.D. Texas· 2000-02-09· cited 8×
• 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island
  D. Rhode Island· 1996-09-18· cited 7×
• In Re PT-1 Communications, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2009-08-28· cited 6×
• Thomas v. Board of Education, Unified School District No. 501
  D. Kansas· 1997-12-18· cited 4×
• Poole Ex Rel. Hofmann v. Money Mortgage Corp. of America (In Re Hofmann)
  W.D. Texas· 2000-04-14· cited 2×
• VARGAS TORRES v. Toledo
  D. Puerto Rico· 2009-12-07· cited 2×
• Baker v. Thomas
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-01-30· cited 2×
• Hudson v. DiPaolo
  First Circuit· 2006-05-12· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Browder v. Director, Dept. of Corrections of Ill.
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 3,383×
• Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 1,644×
• Blanchard v. Bergeron
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-21· cited 1,609×
• White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security
  Supreme Court· 1982-04-19· cited 1,321×
• United States v. Metropolitan District Commission, Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1988-05-19· cited 160×
• Joseph A. Puleio v. George A. Vose, Jr., Etc.
  First Circuit· 1987-10-09· cited 144×
• John E. Morgan v. Massachusetts General Hospital
  First Circuit· 1990-04-20· cited 129×
• Evelyn Cotto and Edwin Torres, Etc. v. United States
  First Circuit· 1993-05-19· cited 112×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1987-11-20· cited 102×
• Martha's Vineyard Scuba Headquarters, Inc. v. The Unidentified, Wrecked and Abandoned Steam Vessel, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1987-11-24· cited 102×
• Alan Lefkowitz v. Michael Fair, Commissioner, Department of Corrections, Arif Hussain v. Michael Fair, Etc., Alan Lefkowitz
  First Circuit· 1987-04-13· cited 92×
• Migda Rodriguez-Antuna v. Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation
  First Circuit· 1989-03-24· cited 82×
• Lawrence MacKin v. City of Boston
  First Circuit· 1992-07-06· cited 81×
• Andrew S. Jacobs v. Anthony Mancuso, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1987-07-24· cited 68×
• Michael E. Spiller v. U.S v. Laboratories, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1988-03-23· cited 62×
• Esmat Zaklama, M.D. v. Mount Sinai Medical Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-07-24· cited 55×
• Donna Crossman v. Michael MacCoccio
  First Circuit· 1986-05-21· cited 48×
• Rafael Figueroa-Ruiz v. Jose E. Alegria, Appeal of Rafael Perez-Bachs
  First Circuit· 1990-06-13· cited 29×
• Valley Citizens for a Safe Environment v. Edward C. Aldridge
  First Circuit· 1992-07-20· cited 28×
• Pedro C. Vargas v. Leonardo Gonzalez
  First Circuit· 1992-08-17· cited 28×

Other cases named Witty v. Dukakis

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Witty v. Dukakis
  First Circuit· 1993-09-02