Ames v. Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Public Defender Agency v. Superior Court, Third Judicial District (1975), Rice v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (1981)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 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 Sears v. Treasurer & Receiver General · Denby v. Berry · Boyne v. Ryan · State Ex Rel. Carmichael v. Jones · Brooks v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial review of decisions which are within the executive discretion of [a prosecutor] 'would constitute an intolerable interference by the judiciary in the executive department of the government and would be in violation * of art. 30 of the [Massachusetts] Declaration of Rights.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The duty of taking action to protect public charitable trusts and to enforce proper application of their funds rests solely upon the Attorney General as the representative of the public interests.”
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.