Commonwealth v. Dextra’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2007 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Massachusetts, Inc. (1961)
2 district · 20 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 Commonwealth v. Has · Commonwealth v. Nagle
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'And whereas many persons are of opinion that the Sabbath, or time of religious rest, begins on Saturday evening; therefore, to prevent all unnecessary disturbance of persons of such opinion, as well as to encourage in all others a due and seasonable preparation for the religious duties of the Lord's day,' be it enacted,”
1 later decision 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.