Commonwealth v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Emerick (1953), Commonwealth v. Wagner (1950)
29 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 Commonwealth v. Funk · Commonwealth v. Cronin · Wise v. Cambridge Springs Borough · Henry's Estate
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There will, no doubt, be common agreement that a person afflicted with epilepsy is `incompetent or unable to exercise reasonable and ordinary control over a vehicle' on the public highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . A qualified person may not be deprived of the privilege of obtaining a license by arbitrary action of the officers entrusted with the administration of the code. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Silver License
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.