Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. MacElwee’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Retirement Board v. McGovern (1934), Commonwealth v. Stofchek (1936)
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 Sugar Notch Borough · Reeves v. Philadelphia Suburban Water Co. · In re Road in the Borough of Phoenixville · Commonwealth v. Budd Wheel Co. · Blanchard v. McDonnell
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.
““ ‘An act concerning townships/ is notice to all persons located therein and to every subordinate municipal division of the State located wholly or partially within them, that there may be, in the body of the act, something which affects his or its interests, and ordinarily this satisfies the constitutional requirements as to the title”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckman v. Lansberry
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.