Commonwealth v. Staub’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably State Ex Rel. Cooper v. French (1990), Snider v. Thornburgh (1981)
28 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 Reed v. Reed · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Kahn v. Shevin · Wiegand v. Wiegand · Conway v. Dana
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever commits fornication is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay afine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), for the use of the institution district where the offense was committed. “It shall be sufficient to convict an unmarried woman to show that a child was born of her body. “Any man charged by an unmarried woman with being the father of her bastard child, shall be the reputed father and if she persists in the charge in the time of her extremity of labor, or afterwards in open court, the same shall be given in evidence in order to convict such person of fornication. Such man, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced, in addition to the fine aforesaid, to pay the expenses incurred at the birth of such child, and if such child is born dead, or shall die during the continuance of the order for the maintenance of said child, to also pay the reasonable funeral expenses thereof, and to give security, by one or more sureties, and in such sum as the court shall direct, to the institution district where such child was born, to perform such order for the maintenance of the said child, as the court shall direct. “After a hearing on the petition of any interested party, such order for the maintenance of such child may be increased or decreased from time to time by said Court before or after the expiration of the term at which such man was sentenced ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“, should be discarded. Accordingly, we proceed to analyze the classification at issue here to determine whether it is reasonable, not arbitrary, and rests upon a difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation. The object of the legislation in the instant case is clear; the Legislature has plainly declared its intention in enacting the Ethics Law:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snider v. Thornburgh
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.