Greenaway's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Fontaine v. Ebtec Corp. (1993), Commonwealth v. Greenberg (1959)
2 district · 44 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 Hanscom v. Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co. · Ahmed's Case · Coe v. Coe · Ring v. City of Woburn · Devine's Case
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““were construed to operate retroactively, at least in so far as the previously acquired rights of individuals were affected, there might be hardship as well as constitutional difficulties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is generally held that where a State enacts retroactive legislation impairing its own rights, it cannot be heard to complain on constitutional grounds.”
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.