Lidfors v. Pflaum’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1951
21 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 Doremus v. Root · Smith v. Oregon Short Line Ry. Co. · Cederson v. Oregon Navigation Co. · In Re Waters of Chewaucan River · Putnam v. Pacific Monthly Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a sad commentary on the wisdom of the electorate if we should hold that the movement of a citizen of the state or a traveler from abroad was subject to the whim of every municipality, great or small, between the Columbia river and the California line as to the rate of speed he should drive and the care he should exercise for the protection of others lawfully using the public highway. The state law is a criminal law whose every provision would be worthless but for the penalties prescribed for its violation. “City ordinances may possibly be valid when not in conflict with the state. But when in conflict, they must yield to the right of the state to protect its citizens and the strangers within its gates everywhere.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winters v. Bisaillon
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.