Commonwealth v. Garman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Commonwealth v. Emerick (1953), Commonwealth v. Wagner (1950)
47 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 · Handwerk Automobile License Case · 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As far as [section 616 of] The Vehicle Code [of May 1, 1929, P. L. 905, as amended 75 PS §193] is concerned, it provides, as already stated, that the court hearing the matter is to determine ‘whether the petitioner is subject to suspension of operator’s license’; that question must be answered by the court either affirmatively, in- which case it should sustain the suspension ordered by the Secretary, or negatively, in which case it should reverse the suspension and direct a reinstatement of the license.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavanaugh 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.