Commonwealth v. Plaisted’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Welch v. Swasey (1907), General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works (1935)
3 federal appellate · 119 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Reynolds v. States · In re Frazer · City of Taunton v. Taylor · Birdsall v. . Clark · City of Brooklyn v. . Breslin
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Revised Ordinances of Boston of 1885, c. 26, § 1, provide that “ the board of police shall have and exercise all the powers conferred by the statutes of the Commonwealth and the ordinances of the city upon the board of aldermen, or upon the mayor and aldermen, in relation to licensing, regulating, and restraining . . . carriages, wagons, and other vehicles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Page
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.