Stilp v. COM., GENERAL ASSEMBLY’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2024
16 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 Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. · Firing v. Kephart · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Frankel · Insurance Adjustment Bureau, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance · Stilp v. Commonwealth
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.
“[A] constitutional provision is to be interpreted insofar as possible in terms of its spirit and intention. Furthermore, such a provision is to be interpreted in its popular sense as understood by the people who adopted it. The 'ultimate touchstone, nevertheless, must remain the language of the Constitution itself.'”
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.