Esper Bonding Co. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2012
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Craig v. Boren · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Eisenstadt v. Baird · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Carey v. Population Services International
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, where a statute is constitutional as applied to a litigant, the litigant has no standing to challenge the statute on the ground that it may be unconstitutional on its face, that is, as applied to a third person in a hypothetical situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a facial challenge invoking the First Amendment rights of third parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jaynes v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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