State v. Crommett’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2019
17 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 Inhabitants of Whiting v. Inhabitants of Lubec · Inhabitants of East Livermore v. Livermore Falls Trust & Banking Co. · Estate of Meier · Inhabitants of Cape Elizabeth v. Skillin · A. L. & E. F. Goss Co. v. Greenleaf
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the general rule in Maine that the State is not bound by a statute unless expressly named therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doc v. Puc
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.