Berkwitz’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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. · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · Paraboschi v. Shaw · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · In re Keenan
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 21 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“have the force of law and are just as binding on the court and the parties as would be a statute”
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.