Ferullo's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Leardi v. Brown (1985), Commonwealth v. Burke (1983)
31 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · United States v. Silk · Commonwealth v. Welosky · Khoury v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. · McDermott'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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes are to be construed in the light of the preexisting common and statutory law .... It is not to be lightly supposed that radical changes in the law were intended where not plainly expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. G.F.
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.