Commonwealth v. Likeley’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Matson v. Margiotti (1952), Dauphin County Grand Jury Investigation Proceedings (1938)
31 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 Houseman v. Commonwealth ex rel. Tener · Commonwealth, ex rel. Hughes v. Gritman
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘An election is the embodiment of the popular will, the expression of the sovereign power of the people. In common parlance, an election is the act of casting and receiving the ballots, counting them and making the return’. . . . The term carries with it the idea of a choice by the body of voters in a municipality, or an expression of the popular will expressed at the polls”: Commonwealth ex rel. v. Likeley, 267 Pa. 310, 313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . on conviction of misbehavior or crime, at the pleasure of the appointing power, and for reasonable cause on the address of two-thirds of the senate. All officers are subject to the first kind, appointed officers to the second, and elected officers to the third.” (Italics supplied.)”
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.