Scott v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2010
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Prichard v. Battle · Winston v. Commonwealth · Owens v. Commonwealth · Anglin v. Joyner · Paris v. Brown & Hooff
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appeals from order suspending or revofdng license or registration. — Any person aggrieved by an order or act of the Commissioner requiring suspension or revocation of a license or registration under the provisions of this chapter is entitled to judicial review in accordance with the provisions of fire Admin istrative Process Act (§ 9-6.14:1 et seq.). No appeal shall lie in any case in which the suspension or revocation of the license or registration was mandatory ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Repp“Under section 46-424 above referred to there is a right preserved to the operator for a review of the act of the commissioner, provided the revocation of the license is not mandatory. In the case at bar the revocation by the commissioner was mandatory, therefore the petitioner was not entitled to a review of his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. Joyner“No review shall lie in any case in which the revocation of the license or registration was mandatory except to determine the identity of the person concerned when the question of identity is in dispute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. Joyner
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.