Commonwealth v. Dorr’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1975 · most notably Commonwealth v. Slavski (1923), State v. Heisler (1954)
36 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 Evanston v. Gunn · Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Commonwealth v. Costley · Commonwealth v. Piper · Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The official record of a fact made by a public officer in the performance of his duty may be introduced in evidence as proof of the truth of the facts recorded. This rests upon the general principles of the law of evidence, and not upon the statutes.””
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.