Commonwealth v. Sees’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Konstantopoulos v. Town of Whately (1981), 32 Cal. 3d 553 - Morris v. Municipal Court (1982)
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 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 United States v. O'Brien · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · California v. LaRue · Johnson v. United States · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no provision of [the Massachusetts] Constitution gives a preferred position to regulation of alcoholic beverages”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right of free speech shall not be abridged”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before 1975 prohibition of topless or bottomless dancing in designated establishments was widely upheld as directed against conduct rather than speech. [Citing nine cases, including Crownover . ] But it now seems clear that such ordinances violate the First Amendment if not limited to places dispensing alcoholic beverages.”
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.