Commonwealth v. Bushey’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 1962
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Wagner · 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing the above section of the Act, this Court decided in Commonwealth v. Cole, 350 Pa. 369 , 39 A 2d 361, that where a defendant was operating a motor vehicle involved in an accident resulting fatally to a person, a court may properly reinstate the license where negligence by the operator is not proved. By the use of the word ‘negligence’, we necessarily implied negligence of such a character that, in the discretion of the court, the defendant should have inflicted upon him the punitive penalty of having his license suspended and that the public required such protection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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