Commonwealth v. Yee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2015
23 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. French · Commonwealth v. Sacco · Horton v. Attorney General · Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Nassar v. 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I. When Statutes Shall Take Effect. “No law passed by the general court shall take effect earlier than ninety days after it has become a law, excepting laws declared to be emergency laws and laws which may not be made the subject of a referendum petition, as herein provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vittands v. Sudduth““Section 2. Excluded Matters. - No law that relates to . . . powers . . . of courts . . . shall be the subject of a referendum petition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vittands v. Sudduth
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.