Dials v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1949 · most notably Doss v. Monticello Electric Light & Power Co. (1922), Patrick v. Commonwealth (1923)
32 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 Wellington v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McClanahan · Garrison v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. L. &. N. R. R. · Dorsey 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the Legislature in the enactment of this chapter, as indicated by its title and terms, and in view of the fact that it was enacted immediately after the adoption of an amendment to the state Constitution, now section 226a thereof, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the commonwealth, except for certain named purposes, was to provide penalties for violations of the constitutional amendment; and to regulate the manufacture, sale, and transportation of same for such, excepted purposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.