Richardson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably King v. Commonwealth (1977), Banovitch v. Commonwealth (1954)
25 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 Bell v. Commonwealth · Albert v. Commonwealth · People v. Campbell · Goodman v. Commonwealth · Davis 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The number of deaths resulting from the operation of motor vehicles on the highways has increased to such an alarming extent that the legislature in a number of States have made a simple act of negligence which results in serious bodily injury, or death, a crime. Such statutes have been adopted in California, People v. Warner, 27 Cal. App.2d 190 , 80 P.2d 737 , Kansas, sec. 8-529, G.S. 1947 Sup., and Michigan [Comp. Laws of Michigan (1929) secs. 16743-16745]; People v. Campbell, 237 Mich. 424 , 212 N.W. 97 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Champ
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.