Commonwealth v. Dowler’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 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 Multistate Legal Studies, Inc. v. Ladd, Register of Copyrights · Brooks v. Winter · Pentucket Manor Chronic Hospital, Inc. v. Rate Setting Commission · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Gagnon
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 6 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 pursuant to a violation of paragraph (a) of subdivision (1) of section twenty-four, . . . and prior to the restoration of such license or right to operate or the issuance to him of a new license to operate shall be punished . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]ue process requires that criminal statutes unambiguously describe proscribed conduct and the penalties resulting from engaging in such conduct. ... Due process does not require actual notice of criminal penalties.”
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.