Melnik v. Perwak’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1992
2 district · 18 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 Bickford v. Furber · Wescott v. Henshaw Motor Co. · DeCosta v. Ye Craftsman Studio Inc. · Allicia v. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad · Hutchinson v. H. E. Shaw Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The administrator to recover for the death of the intestate due to the negligent operation of a motor vehicle upon the ways of the Commonwealth must show as a condition precedent to the existence of the right of action that he was appointed administrator.”
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.