Commonwealth v. Clanton’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. O'SEARO (1976), Commonwealth v. Sisak (1969)
63 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 Burns v. Richardson · Commonwealth v. Simmons · Commonwealth v. Samuel Jones · Commonwealth v. Homeyer · Commonwealth v. Almeida
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of whether a valid marriage existed is not whether the parties to an allegedly lawful marriage believe they are lawfully married, but whether in law they are lawfully married.”
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.