Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1987 · most notably Patton v. United States (1930), Mamlin v. Genoe (1940)
5 federal appellate · 44 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 Kuhn v. Buhl · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Swarthmore Borough v. Public Service Commission · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ross v. Egan · Commonwealth v. Maxwell
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a Judge exercises a power not conferred upon him by law, his act is more than a mere irregularity, which can be waived by Defendant; it is a nullity.”
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.