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Commonwealth v. Strobel’s Empirical Analysis

1953

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
May 1992
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Commonwealth v. McCartney (1971), Commonwealth v. Verna (1976)

33 state decisions

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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. Emerick · Bureau of Highway Safety v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Cole · Commonwealth v. Herzog · Commonwealth v. Eisenmenger

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““. , . an appeal to the court is not for the purpose of reviewing the evidence taken before the secretary, and his action thereon, but to hear evidence and determine, in the exercise of the court’s sound discretion and in the furtherance of justice, whether the license should be suspended.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Munch License
  2. ““After the appeal has been heard de novo, it is the duty of the hearing judge to make findings of fact from the testimony whereon he may reasonably base his ultimate conclusion as to whether the suspension of the operator’s license was warranted.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Munch License
  3. ““Following such hearing de novo the hearing judge is required to make his independent findings of fact and exercise his discretion whether or not a suspension should be decreed.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Munch 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.