Commonwealth v. Abramms’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2022
7 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Speiser v. Randall · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · Smith v. Goguen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a statute's deterrent effect on protected expression is not 'both real and substantial' and if the statute is 'readily subject to a narrowing construction,' the doctrine of overbreadth may not be employed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we are required to presume that every enactment of the Legislature is intended to comply with constitutional constraints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Fox
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.