Commonwealth v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 395 - Arp v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (1977), Commonwealth v. King (1977)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 47 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 Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Taylor v. Louisiana · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[BJecause the woman carries and bears the child, the pressures of society make it nearly impossible for her successfully to deny parenthood or to avoid responsibility for the child. The father, on the other hand, because not visibly linked to the child, often is unaware of the tie or denies it, and thus the fact of his parenthood is more difficult to prove.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e discern no permissible legislative goal which rationally is achieved by making a father, but not a mother, guilty of conceiving a child out of wedlock. . . The imposition of a criminal sentence on the father alone for begetting the child violates the equal protection of the laws. Commonwealth v. MacKenzie, 334 N.E.2d 613, 615 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meloon v. Helgemoe
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.