Booth v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2019
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Winters v. People of State of New York · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · Kunz v. People of State of New York
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the basis of such a portmanteau word ... the judiciary has no standards with which to judge the validity of ... action which necessarily involves, at least in large measure, subjective determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Not proper; not suited to the circumstances, design or end; not appropriate, fit, or congruous; . . . not accordant with propriety or good taste or manner; . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shown himself to be an improper person to be allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages,”
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.