Edwards v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1994
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pittaulis Liquor License Case · Commonwealth v. Court House Motor Inn, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to prevent or alleviate the considerable losses to survivors who, on the death of a licensed director, might find themselves with a funeral home property in which substantial investment had been made by their decedent but which, being of little or no use except to a licensed person, could be disposed of only at great suffering.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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