Commonwealth v. McNutt’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1936
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Higgins v. Commonwealth · Ex parte City of Paducah
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that in the first part of the act words are set out as added to the statute which are changed in the latter part of the statutl, where the statute as amended is set out in full. The reason of this evidently was that the words, 'without just cause,’ were too indefinite, and the act was amended so as to substitute for them ‘without such cause as constitutes a statute ground for divorce.’ “The amended words were substituted in the latter part of the act where the statute as amended is set out in full, but by oversight the act as it was originally written is left unchanged in the opening-clause where the words to be added are set out. When the whole act is read, it is manifest what the legislature meant. Section 51 of the Constitution provides: ‘No law shall be revised, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred by reference to its title only, bnt so much thereof as is revised, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length.’ Pursuant to this provision, the section as amended is set out in full in the act. The preceding part of the act was merely intended to show how the result was reached. The fact that there is a discrepancy between the old section when the words were added to it which are proposed in the first part of the act and the section as amended which is set out in the latter part of the act is immaterial. The act declares that the section shall be read as therein written, and this is the law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.