Commonwealth v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
70
cited by 70 later decisions
5
states following
June 2005
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Commonwealth v. Farquharson (1976), Pirillo v. Pirillo (1975)
5 federal appellate · 61 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.
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.