McDowell v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Neeley v. Johnson · Robinson v. Commonwealth · "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Coley & Petersen, Inc. · Ashley v. Commonwealth · Kettler & Scott, Inc. v. Earth Technology Companies
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.
“"the regularity of [the documents'] preparation and the fact that the records are relied upon in the transaction of business by the person or entities for which they are kept and they are kept in the ordinary course of business made contemporaneously with the event by persons having the duty to keep a true record. The final test is whether the documents sought to be introduced are the type of records which are relied upon by those who prepare them or for whom they are prepared."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Wallace · Smith v. Com.
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.