Commonwealth v. Herzog’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wagner (1950), Commonwealth v. Halteman (1960)
37 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 · Bureau of Highway Safety v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Cole
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to hear evidence and determine, in the exercise of [its] sound discretion and in the furtherance of justice, whether the license should be suspended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . the crucial factor ... is that ‘the fatality resulted from the negligence’ of the operator whose license is singled out for suspension.””
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.