Commonwealth v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996 · most notably Myers v. United States (1926), Richie v. Philadelphia (1909)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Houseman v. Commonwealth ex rel. Tener · Lane v. Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Without going into the discussion at length, we are of opinion that a policeman is a subordinate ministerial agent or employee, like a fireman, a watchman or superintendent of public squares or other property, under the orders of a municipal department. He is not an independent ‘municipal officer exercising grave public functions’ in the language of Houseman v. Com. [ 100 Pa. 222 ], supra, . . .””
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.