Commonwealth v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Tenement House Department v. . McDevitt (1915), Lincoln v. City of Boston (1889)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proprietor of a building cannot be said to ‘keep or maintain’ a common nuisance, within the meaning of Pub. St. c. 101. § 6, making a building used for the sale of intoxicating liquors a nuisance, on the strength of a single casual sale, made without premeditation in the course of a lawful business. The words ‘keep or maintain’ import a certain degree of permanence.””
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.