Grosso v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably 5 Va. App. 459 - Coleman v. City of Richmond (1988), 140 W. Va. 444 - State v. Pietranton (1954)
44 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 Premier-Pabst Sales Co. v. Grosscup · Potts v. Commonwealth · H. L. Carpel of Richmond, Inc. v. City of Richmond · Widgeon v. Commonwealth · Campbell v. Commonwealth
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that one challenging the constitutionality of a provision in a statute has the burden of showing that he himself has been injured thereby. It avails him nothing to point out that some other person might conceivably be discriminated against.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All applications for certificates to practice medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, and chiropractic in this State after the passing of this act must successfully pass an examination before the board of medical examiners, established by this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There being no assignment of error challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, such sufficiency is conceded. Neither is the sufficiency of the warrant questioned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.