State v. Wiener’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably West v. Town of Winnsboro (1968), State v. Bourg (1966)
26 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · United States v. Petrillo · Hygrade Provision Co. v. Sherman · Robinson v. United States · Two Guys From Harrison-Allentown, Inc. v. McGinley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature, so it declares, enacted the law to promote the health, recreation and welfare of the people by making the first day of the week a day of rest and to prevent unfair competition by those who might choose to work while others rested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The enumeration in a statute of every item or variation in conduct is frequently impossible.”
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.