Commonwealth v. Plissner’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 128 W. Va. 655 - State v. Hudson (1946), Commonwealth v. Noxon (1946)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Posell v. Herscovitz · Thornhill v. Carpenter-Morton Co. · People Ex Rel. Ellison v. . Lavin · Commonwealth v. Sullivan · Commonwealth v. Weight
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“payment of a price for the chance of a prize , the result depending on or being determined by chance. " 295 Mass. at 463 , 4 N.E.2d at 244 (emphasis added). The court explained that "[t]he mere fact that skill as well as chance may enter into a game, however, does not prevent it from *Page 373 being a lottery. . . . With reference to cases where both elements are present, the rule generally stated is that if the element of chance rather than that of skill predominates, the game may be found to be a lottery.”
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.