Commonwealth v. Gaitherwright’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gateway Construction Company v. Wallbaum · Beckham v. Bd. of Educ. of Jefferson Cty. · Commonwealth v. Frodge
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.
“not at liberty to add or subtract from the legislative enactment nor discover meaning not reasonably ascertainable from the language used.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is neither the duty nor the prerogative of the judiciary to breathe into the statute that which the Legislature has not put there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from the words employed in enacting the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peterson v. Shake
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.