Commonwealth v. McCoun’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2018
9 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 Johnson v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Meredith · Manning, Commissioner of Finance v. Sims · Shaw v. Fox · Kentucky State Park Commission v. Wilder · Daniel's Adm'r v. Hoofnel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... investígate, hear proof, and to compensate persons for damages sustained to either person or property as a proximate result of negligence on the part of the Commonwealth, any of its departments or agencies, or any of its officers, agents or employes while acting within the scope of their employment by the Commonwealth or any of its departments or agencies....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guffey v. Cann
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.