Whooley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sandler v. Commonwealth · Catanzarite v. City of Springfield · Seich v. Town of Canton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whether or not the plaintiffs ever went to the school to watch their daughter, they still had to pay a fee for her to register with the basketball team. On the other hand, even if the plaintiffs did not register their daughter to play on the team, the plaintiffs, along with any other member of the public, could have gone to the school and observed the basketball game without paying a fee."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“she was no different from any other member of the public who could come in and watch.”
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.