Commonwealth v. House’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1961
11 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 City of Monticello v. Bates
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.
““It gives no effect to the character of the building and prescribes no standard with which the citizens must comply or by which the discretion of a council is to be controlled. On the contrary, it gives to the council the arbitrary power to discriminate between the citizens of the city by granting a permit to one and refusing a permit to another, although the circumstances and conditions may be exactly the same. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCown v. Gose · Slaughter v. Post
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.