Commonwealth v. Dowe’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971), Commonwealth v. Judge (1995)
2 district · 40 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 Bolster v. City of Lawrence · Attorney General v. Pelletier · Attorney General v. Tufts · Prince v. Crocker · Bell v. Treasurer of Cambridge
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'We think that the words 'executive officer' in the statute refer to an officer of the executive branch of the State Government, and not to a municipal officer having executive duties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Mathews“[w]here a crime can be committed in any one of several ways, an indictment properly charges its commission in all those ways, using the conjunction 'and' in joining them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the rule requiring certainty in criminal pleading”
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.