Keane v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. “. . [T]he statute does not impose upon the licensee the duty-of determining at his peril whether the driver’s license is a bona fide license of the party presenting it. Possession of the license is presumptive evidence that the license belonged to the holder. ... To hold otherwise would require the attendant to determine at his peril whether the driver’s license had been legally issued, whether it had not been revoked or suspended, and whether the party presenting it was in truth and fact the legitimate holder of the paper. “. . . Unless the personal appearance of the holder of the driver’s license demonstrates above mere suspicion that he is not the legal owner of the license the bartender is justified in assuming the validity of the driver’s license and in accepting the holder as the legal owner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 145 Cal. App. 2d 561 - Dethlefsen v. State Board of Equalization

2. “. . The clerk, if he acted in good faith and without actual knowledge, gained from the appearance of the purchaser, or otherwise, that the card did not or could not belong to the minor, and if the alteration was with reasonable diligence not discernible or ascertainable, had a right to assume that anyone presenting such a card would not unlawfully possess or use it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 145 Cal. App. 2d 561 - Dethlefsen v. State Board of Equalization