Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jackson (1976), Commonwealth v. Brandano (1971)
2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Miller v. State · Murphy v. Commonwealth · Sennott's Case · People v. Joyce · City of Boston v. City of Chelsea
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was a delegation of judicial functions to an administrative board, and was an imposition of a greater, additional or substituted sentence for that prescribed by the court.”
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.