Stearns’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Nelson v. Commissioner of Correction (1983), Nason v. Superintendent of Bridgewater State Hospital (1968)
2 district · 28 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 Gildea v. Commissioner of Correction · Chambers's Case · Gentile · Le Donne · Klier v. Building Inspector of Lawrence
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.