Dial v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably State v. Gani (1924), Lovelace v. Commonwealth (1941)
40 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.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Lockwood · Ex parte Brown · Commonwealth v. Gorham · State ex rel. Owens v. Barnes · People v. Rodrigo
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person shall unlawfully and corruptly cause or procure another, by any means whatever, to commit the offense or offenses described in the-four preceding sections, he shall be guilty of subornation of perjury, and confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word conviction has a two-fold meaning. One is the determination of the fact of guilt, as by the verdict of a jury.. . . The other and the one in which it is employed in speaking of a state of infamy, denotes the final judgment in the prosecution.. ..”
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.