Rakes v. United States

Decided January 3, 2005. William G. Young wrote the opinion for the court.

352 F. Supp. 2d 47 · Cited 91 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• United States v. Salemme · 91 F. Supp. 2d 141
• Bellows v. Worcester Storage Co. · 297 Mass. 188
• United States v. Flemmi · 195 F. Supp. 2d 243
• Pinshaw v. Metropolitan District Commission · 524 N.E.2d 1351
• Howard v. Town of Burlington · 506 N.E.2d 102
• Berkovitz v. United States · 486 U.S. 531
• Wang Laboratories, Inc. v. Business Incentives, Inc. · 501 N.E.2d 1163
• Commonwealth v. Levesque · 436 Mass. 443
• Riley v. Presnell · 565 N.E.2d 780
• Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 557 N.E.2d 739
• Alberts v. Devine · 479 N.E.2d 113
• Morse v. Homer's Inc. · 295 Mass. 606
• Nelson v. Nason · 177 N.E.2d 887
• Mosko v. Raytheon Co. · 622 N.E.2d 1066
• Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · 162 N.E. 99
• Doe v. Purity Supreme, Inc. · 422 Mass. 563
• Heinrich Ex Rel. Heinrich v. Sweet · 62 F. Supp. 2d 282
• Heinrich v. Sweet · 44 F. Supp. 2d 408

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• McCloskey v. Mueller · 385 F. Supp. 2d 74
• Patterson v. United States · 372 F. Supp. 2d 195
• United States Ex Rel. Rost v. Pfizer Inc. · 446 F. Supp. 2d 6

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