Commonwealth v. Slome’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives (1979), Commonwealth v. Burke (1983)
29 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Old Dearborn Distributing Co. v. Seagram-Distillers Corp. · Cline v. Frink Dairy Co. · Kay v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words of a statute are to be given their usual and ordinary meaning. Words plain enough in common speech are equally plain when they appear in a statute. They are to be considered in the light of the obvious aim to be accomplished by the Legislature and as employed by the Legislature as expressing the practical means by which the legislative aim is to be attained. Every statute, if possible, is to be construed in accordance with sound judgment and common sense, so as to make it an effectual piece of legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it lacks . . . certainty and definiteness . . . so that a [person] of ordinary intelligence [is unable] to ascertain whether any act 9 or omission of his [or hers], as the case may be, will come within the sweep of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“designed or calculated to cause the public to believe that they state or relate to the price of motor fuel”
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.