Commonwealth v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2025
2 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 44 U.S.C. § 1911
Relies on Mooney v. Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Board of Trustees · Foley v. Benedict · Board of Trustees of University v. Waugh · Gott v. Berea College · Woods v. Simpson
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.