Commonwealth v. Bessler’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1959
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Keeping a disorderly house is a common-law offense, and to keep it is not an indictable offense, unless it be laid as a common nuisance. Common nuisances are created in various ways. One act, of itself, might not be common nuisance, except for that which directly flows from it, and which is of a continuing nature. The offense of keeping a disorderly house consists of a repetition of improper conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The said Phillip Bessler on the- days of -, 1894, and before the finding of this indictment, in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully suffer, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.