Commonwealth v. Uski’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 753 - Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), State v. Swift (1939)
53 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Commonwealth v. Henry · Commonwealth v. Clarke · Commonwealth v. Wood
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * *. A person operates a motor vehicle within the meaning [of the statute] when in the vehicle, he intentionally does any act or makes use of any mechanical or electrical agency which alone or in sequence will set in motion the motive power of that vehicle. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“); Commonwealth v. Clarke, 254 Mass. 566 (1926) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Cass
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.