Dyke v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Marshall v. Commonwealth (1960), Grant v. Commonwealth (1982)
4 federal appellate · 59 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 Richardson v. Commonwealth · Linton v. Commonwealth · White 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 53-215. * * * The court may, for any cause deemed by it sufficient, revoke the suspension of sentence and any probation, if the defendant be on probation, and cause the defendant to be arrested and brought before the court at any time 'within the probation period # * #_» (italics supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It [the order of the lower court] suspended the execution of the sentence for all time, but upon the condition that the defendant keep the peace and not violate the law for one year. If the defendant had kept that condition, then the court was bound by that condition and could not after that year of good behavior have revoked the suspension and required the defendant to serve the sentence....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“afford to trial courts a valuable means of bringing about the rehabilitation of offenders against the criminal laws”
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.