Marcoux v. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• challenged legislation is subject to “a continuum of constitutional vulnerability determined at every point by the competing values involved”
• statute deemed constitutional on motion to dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 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×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-04-24· cited 175×
• Custody of a Minor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-04-20· cited 128×
• Moe v. Secretary of Administration & Finance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-18· cited 105×
• English v. New England Medical Center, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-07-20· cited 60×
• Attorney General v. Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-02· cited 54×
• State v. Mallan
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1998-01-30· cited 53×
• Doe v. Superintendent of Schools
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-08-11· cited 51×
• Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-30· cited 51×
• Shell Oil Co. v. City of Revere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-04· cited 40×
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) v. Bell
  District of Columbia· 1980-02-11· cited 32×
• Murphy v. Commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-05-12· cited 31×
• Hampshire Village Associates v. District Court of Hampshire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-07-15· cited 25×
• Bachrach v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-09· cited 24×
• Lyons v. Labor Relations Commission
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-04-01· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Nissenbaum
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-04-12· cited 18×
• National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws v. Gain
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-11-30· cited 14×
• People v. Schmidt
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-10-18· cited 10×
• Doe No. 1 v. Secretary of Education
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-24· cited 8×
• State v. Chrisman
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-11-02· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,329×
• Stanley v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-07· cited 1,725×
• Whalen v. Roe
  Supreme Court· 1977-02-22· cited 1,722×
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 1,264×
• United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Super 8MM. Film
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 524×
• Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-28· cited 327×
• Smith v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-23· cited 285×
• Ravin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-05-28· cited 199×
• State v. Erickson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-01-20· cited 169×
• Doe v. Commonwealth's Atty. for City of Richmond
  E.D. Virginia· 1975-10-24· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-12-12· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Balthazar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-01· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Leis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-01-09· cited 86×
• United States v. John C. Kiffer
  Second Circuit· 1973-04-18· cited 80×
• Coffee-Rich, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-02-02· cited 57×
• State Ex Rel. Colvin v. Lombardi
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1968-05-08· cited 55×
• American Motorcycle Ass'n v. Department of State Police
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1968-04-30· cited 50×
• Aldo Mario Lovisi and Margaret Lovisi v. A. E. Slayton, Jr., Superintendent, Leake Parrish, Superintendent
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-05-12· cited 49×
• State v. Kantner
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1972-01-20· cited 48×