Commonwealth v. Bristow’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Hartlieb (1975), Commonwealth v. EVANS (1959)
23 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 Hotel Casey Co. v. Ross · Gambone v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Zasloff · Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. v. Siggins · Poch v. Equit. L. Assur. Soc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[including] any combustible or explosive composition ... prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion . . . and shall include . . . toy cannons in which explosives are used.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Like all legislation, the Fireworks Law must be interpreted in the light of its general purposes. It was enacted under the general police power of the Commonwealth for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the public. . . 185 Pa. Superior Ct. 448, 454 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a substance (or a combination of substances) which upon rapid decomposition or combustion causes an explosion, that is, a violent bursting or expansion with noise.”
1 later decision 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.