Commonwealth v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Pittsburgh School District Condemnation Case (1968), 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott (1987)
31 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. Brown · United States v. Giles · United States v. Gaskin · LaBrum v. Commonwealth Title Co. of Philadelphia · Smith v. Messner
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Penal statutes must be strictly construed. . . but that does not require us to hold that the words of a criminal statute must be given their narrowest meaning or that the lawmaker's evident intent must be disregarded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to lead on, to influence, to prevail on, to move by persuasion or influence, to bring on or about, to effect, to cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dansereau v. Ulmer“was brought about or effected or induced by defendant”
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.