Hackney v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably People v. Belanger (1966), State v. Reynolds (1954)
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Burton v. United States · Simpson v. State · Flick v. State · Lewis v. Commonwealth · State v. Syphrett
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.
“* Webster's International Dictionary, 2d Ed., defines "place" as "a portion of space occupied by a body;" "any particular spot or locality." The same authority defines "public" as "open to the knowledge or view of all; generally seen, known, or heard; without privacy, concealment, etc." "A place so near and so open that persons traveling the highway can see card or dice playing thereat is abstractly and per se a public place." 6 Words and Phrases, p. 5807. Bouvier's Law Dictionary defines "public place" as "Any place so situated that what passes there can be seen by any considerable number of persons, if they happen to look."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If any person behaves in a riotous or disorderly manner in any street, highway, public building, or any other public place, other than those mentioned in the preceding section . . . or causes any unnecessary disturbance in or on any public conveyance, by running through it, climbing through windows or upon the seats, failing to move to another seat when lawfully requested to so move by the operator, or otherwise annoying passengers or employees therein, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of a nature to corrupt the public morals or to outrage the sense of public decency, whether committed by words or acts.”
2 later decisions 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.