Dolan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971), City of Boston v. Santosuosso (1940)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 Cooke v. United States · Clark v. United States · Hyde v. United States · In re Debs · McKane v. Durston
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and constituted contempt of this Honorable Court.”
2 later decisions 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.