Commonwealth v. Depofi’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably United States ex rel. Darcy v. Handy (1953), Commonwealth v. Lowry (1953)
10 federal appellate · 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. Williams · Commonwealth v. Stofchek · Commonwealth v. Parker · Kelley v. Earle · Poor District Case (No. 1)
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The thing could, and no doubt has, actually worked out in practice in a truly shocking way.”
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.