Cherenzia v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Sinaloa Lake Owners Association v. City of Simi Valley · Payne Butler v. Providence Gas Company
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.
““We are of opinion that the Declaration of Rights and Privileges, contained in the seventeenth section of the first article of the Constitution, was intended to be carried into effect by legislative regulation, such regulation having for its object to secure to the whole people the benefit of the constitutional declaration, and being necessary for that purpose.””
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.