Parr v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. Ellington (1985), Tasker v. Commonwealth (1961)
24 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 Stone v. Mississippi · Pike v. Eubank · Burford v. Commonwealth · Roy v. Commonwealth · Bell 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our conclusion is that while the conduct of a ‘numbers game’ is contrary to the public policy of this State and our standard of morals, it is not per se immoral or inherently evil and does not involve moral turpitude. To adopt the opposite view would lead to the conclusion that other States legalize and permit operations which are per se immoral and inherently evil. It is inconceivable that they would do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris“an act of baseness, vileness or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow man, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that gambling and keeping a gambling house are distinct offenses * *”
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.