Commonwealth v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The owner, trainer, groom or any other person who is charged with the custody, care and responsibility of the horse, are all obligated to protect and guard the horse against the administration ... of any drug to the horse. If the Stewards shall determine that any owner, trainer, groom, or any other person recited herein-before in this section, have failed to protect and guard said horse . .. they may immediately suspend said trainer, groom, or any other person and refer the matter to the Commission for final disposition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bellucci v. Commonwealth, State Horse Racing Commission

2. “[i]n the exercise of the police power, and in the interest and for the protection of the public, the state may, without denial of the equal protection of the laws, reasonably regulate a business, a useful trade, occupation, or profession which may prove injurious to the public, just so the legislation is not discriminatory in the sense of applying unequally to persons pursuing or engaged in the same calling, profession, or business under the same or like conditions and circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 614 F. Supp. 1100 - Associated Film Distribution Corp. v. Thornburgh