Seaton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We come next to the question, is appellant subject to punishment because he refused to permit his relatives and those of his wife, or others, to be notified, so that they might be present at the interment? His relatives and friends may have regarded this conduct on his part as a lack of consideration or respect, for their feelings in the matter, but this is the extent of the bearing which his conduct, in this particular, can have upon the case. They had no legal right to be present. They may have been offended, because not notified or invited, but no ground of complaint is afforded to the public on this account. In some localities funerals are not infrequently attended by invitation. Some are strictly private; while others are open to the public. These are matters which address themselves to the discretion and will of those in interest — the relatives and friends of the deceased.” (Our italics).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haney v. Stamper