151 Pa. Super. 337 - Wigton's Return’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Commonwealth v. Two Electronic Poker Game MacHines (1983), State v. One Bally Coney Island No. 21011 Gaming Table (1953)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 State Ex Rel. Dussault v. Kilburn · Mills Novelty Company's Appeal · 126 Pa. Super. 533 - American Telephone & Telegraph Company's Appeal · Commonwealth v. Klucher · Brua's Appeal
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Bearing in mind that penal laws must be strictly construed, we are not persuaded that the legislature intended a definition of gambling broad enough to make unlawful gaming in which the player, in addition to the pleasure of playing, stands to gain nothing but the right to play again without paying for it and the loser to lose nothing but the compulsion to let him play.’””
3 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.