Costarelli v. Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Fisher v. District Court of Sixteenth Judicial District of Montana in and for County of Rosebud Adoption of Firecrow (1976), Ludwig v. Massachusetts (1976)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · People of State of New York Bryant v. Zimmerman · Bandini Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court · Republic Natural Gas Co. v. Oklahoma · Largent v. Texas
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.