Commonwealth v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1973 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wagner (1950), Commonwealth v. Garman (1949)
43 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 · Handwerk Automobile License Case · Oesterling Appeal · Hardwick Automobile License Case
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of these (cited) cases hold that an appeal to the court is not for the purpose of reviewing the evidence taken before the Secretary, and his action thereon, but to hear evidence and determine, in the exercise of the court’s sound discretion and in the furtherance of justice, whether the license should be suspended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leipheimer License““(b) The secretary may suspend the operator’s license ... of any person, after a hearing . . . whenever the secretary finds upon sufficient evidence: “4. That such person was operating any motor vehicle involved in an accident resulting fatally to any person;””
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.