Commonwealth v. Crosscup’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Donovan (1985), Commonwealth v. Koney (1995)
42 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Hagner v. United States · Lambert v. People of the State of California · United States v. Freed · Powell v. Texas
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle after his license to operate has been suspended or revoked, . . . or after notice of the suspension or revocation of his right to operate a motor vehicle without a license has been issued by the registrar and received by such person or by his agent or employer, and prior to the restoration of such license . . . shall be punished . . . -” 1”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Proper mailing of a letter is 'prima facie evidence' in civil cases of its receipt by the addressee”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacDonald v. Engle
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.