Consumer Party v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund · Commonwealth v. Stofchek · CONSUMERS ED. & PRO. ASS'N v. Nolan · Consumers Education & Protective Ass'n v. Nolan · Scudder v. Smith
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Consumer Party does not allege that any members were deceived as to the contents of the bill, making them unable to vote on it with circumspection. There is no submission by the Consumer Party that any part of the measure was secret."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The purpose of the constitutional requirements relating to the enactment of laws was to put the members of the [General] Assembly and others interested on notice... so they might vote on it with circumspection."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No law shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended, on its passage through either House, as to change its original purpose, (emphasis added) Pa. Const. Art. III, § 1.”
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.