Jasper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2010
22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Berman v. Parker · California State Automobile Ass'n Inter-Insurance Bureau v. Maloney · State ex rel. Civello v. City of New Orleans · 146 W. Va. 22 - Farley v. Graney · People v. Stover
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the principal objective is based upon aesthetic considerations. Though it has been held that such considerations are not sufficient to warrant the invocation of the police power, in our opinion the public welfare is not so limited... . The police power is as broad and comprehensive as the demands of society make necessary. 375 S.W.2d at 711 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The preamble is not the law. It is not necessary for its enactment, nor are its provisions binding.”
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.