Commonwealth v. Guardiani’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2013
17 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 Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Bell Appeal · Braunschweiger's Estate · Commonwealth v. Harris
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The refusal of a lower court to enter an order holding someone in contempt may be a “final order”, [and thus appealable] but only if the refusal is tantamount to denying to the party requesting the order relief to which that party has a right under an earlier final order.”
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.