Commonwealth v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2016
7 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 Lacey v. Palmer · Satterfield v. Commonwealth · Broaddus v. Commonwealth · Gilreath v. Commonwealth · Rose v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts do not pass upon the constitutionality of statutes unless they must.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haynes v. Haggerty
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.