Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth

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• “We will not impute to the voters who enacted the clean elections law an ‘intention to pass an ineffective statute’ ”

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Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-11-18· cited 186×
• Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. City of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-01-13· cited 66×
• American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. Commissioner of Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-01-05· cited 61×
• Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of Representatives
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-08-09· cited 61×
• Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-06-19· cited 50×
• Boston Waterfront Development Corp. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-03· cited 49×
• Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-07-01· cited 44×
• Attorney General v. Town of Dover
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-07-03· cited 42×
• Attorney General v. Trustees of Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-06-03· cited 40×
• Bates v. Director of the Office of Campaign & Political Finance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-02-25· cited 34×
• Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1951-05-16· cited 25×
• Town of Milton v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-12-03· cited 24×
• Burnes v. Metropolitan District Commission
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-05-03· cited 24×
• Citizens Utilities Co. v. Metropolitan Sanitary District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-12-17· cited 24×
• Caesars Massachusetts Management Co. v. Crosby
  First Circuit· 2015-02-13· cited 23×
• Quinlan v. City of Cambridge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-07-08· cited 23×
• Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Metropolitan Transit Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-01-04· cited 22×
• Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-07-17· cited 21×
• Yankee Atomic Electric Co. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-08-11· cited 18×
• Abdow v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-06-24· cited 18×

Cites

74 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
  Supreme Court· 1922-12-11· cited 1,990×
• Lynch v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1934-06-04· cited 962×
• Walla Walla City v. Walla Walla Water Co.
  Supreme Court· 1898-11-14· cited 378×
• New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co.
  Supreme Court· 1885-12-07· cited 323×
• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. City of Goldsboro
  Supreme Court· 1914-02-24· cited 284×
• Indiana Ex Rel. Anderson v. Brand
  Supreme Court· 1938-01-31· cited 273×
• Veix v. Sixth Ward Building & Loan Assn. of Newark
  Supreme Court· 1940-04-22· cited 257×
• Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Tranbarger
  Supreme Court· 1915-06-01· cited 199×
• Helvering v. Powers
  Supreme Court· 1934-12-03· cited 170×
• General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-01-08· cited 128×
• City Railway Co. v. Citizens' Street Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1897-04-19· cited 125×
• Howes Bros. v. Unemployment Compensation Commission
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-12-29· cited 101×
• Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. State Highway Commission
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-01· cited 98×
• Boston & Albany Railroad v. Reardon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1917-03-05· cited 97×
• Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital v. City of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court· 1917-11-05· cited 93×
• New York Electric Lines Co. v. Empire City Subway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1914-11-30· cited 89×
• City of Louisville v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  Supreme Court· 1912-05-13· cited 86×
• Assessors of Quincy v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-05-26· cited 75×
• Grand Trunk Western Railway Co. v. City of South Bend
  Supreme Court· 1913-02-24· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. S. S. Kresge Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-05-27· cited 71×

Other cases named Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-05-21· cited 1×