Commonwealth v. Perdok’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Burns Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. Boehm (1976), Jones Appeal (1972)
56 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 Fauceglia v. Harry · Commonwealth v. Bartley
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(d.l)(l). The rate of speed of any vehicle may be timed . . . through the use of radiomicrowaves, commonly referred to as . . . radar. “No conviction shall be had upon evidence obtained through the use of radar apparatus unless— “(i) it is of a type approved by the secretary, and “(ii) it has been calibrated and tested for accuracy and found accurate or adjusted for accuracy within a period of thirty days prior to the alleged violation”
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.