Commonwealth. v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1976
11 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 Commonwealth v. Lackawanna I. & C. Co. · Florida Packing & Ice Co. v. Carney · Commonwealth v. Philadelphia Toilet & Laundry Co. · Republican Town Committee v. Knowles · Com. v. F. R. Packing Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Meats technically known as “cured,” from having been treated with salt, smoke, etc., keep in an edible condition indefinitely even in the warmest latitudes, whereas the same meats when untreated and fresh, though capable of being kept in their fresh and natural condition for long periods in a low temperature either natural or artificial, quickly spoil, become putrid, and unfit for use when subjected to high or even mean or ordinary temperatures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * “Curing”, as employed in the trade of meat packing, is the permanent halting, not a mere temporary suspension, of the destructive processes of nature.”
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.