Commonwealth v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1951
8 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 Richards v. Commonwealth · Garrison v. Commonwealth · Morgan v. Commonwealth · Gratz v. Commonwealth · Patrick 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We therefore conclude that, although it is necessary for an indictment charging seduction to allege. that the offense was committed within 4 years before the finding of the indictment, or to fix the date of the offense within that time, an indictment that alleges that the offense was committed on the day the indictment, was returned is sufficient.””
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.