Commonwealth v. King

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• enforcement of a prostitution statute against women but not men is unconstitutional
• \prostitutes\ and \common night walkers\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

79 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×
• Attorney General v. School Committee of Essex
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-31· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-21· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Chou
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-22· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Sefranka
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-15· cited 55×
• Attorney General v. Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-02· cited 54×
• DuPont v. Commissioner of Correction
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-02-23· cited 54×
• Saxon Coffee Shop, Inc. v. Boston Licensing Board
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-06-23· cited 51×
• Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-30· cited 51×
• Lowell v. Kowalski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-05-14· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Potts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 50×
• Bolton v. Taylor
  First Circuit· 2004-05-04· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin Fruit Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-23· cited 46×
• Brackett v. Civil Service Commission
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-07-14· cited 46×
• Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-02-26· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Lora
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-05-20· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Boyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-19· cited 35×
• Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group v. Secretary of Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-20· cited 34×
• Peters v. Narick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-10-02· cited 33×
• Burning Tree Club, Inc. v. Bainum
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-12-23· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1886-05-10· cited 3,789×
• Wisconsin v. Yoder
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-15· cited 3,250×
• Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 2,938×
• Loving v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 2,147×
• Oyler v. Boles
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 1,736×
• Graham v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-14· cited 1,494×
• Coates v. City of Cincinnati
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-01· cited 1,269×
• Korematsu v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-02-26· cited 827×
• In Re Griffiths
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 480×
• Oyama v. California
  Supreme Court· 1947-11-17· cited 367×
• United States v. Jeffrey Stuart Falk
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-04-19· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Antobenedetto
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-25· cited 169×
• United States v. William Steele
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-08-09· cited 153×
• Alegata v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-11-17· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-09-11· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Orlando
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-01-24· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Balthazar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-01· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Henry's Drywall Co., Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-12-24· cited 86×
• United States v. Clarence E. Crowthers, and Nathaniel W. Pierce
  Fourth Circuit· 1972-03-20· cited 73×
• State v. Price
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-01-21· cited 59×