State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1982
14 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 Clement v. DelVecchio
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.
“Nevertheless, he [the defendant] concedes, as he must, that the mere operation of a motor vehicle at a speed greatly in excess of the posted speed could, under any conditions, constitute a violation of the statute. The degree of excess of speed over the posted limit is an important factor to be considered by the trier in determining whether, under all the circumstances, a motor vehicle has been operated at a speed greater than was reasonable. It is an open question for the trier to decide whether, in any given case, the speed is actually unreasonable under all the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tornatore“[a]ny speed in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that such speed is not reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tornatore“determine speed limits which are reasonable and safe”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tornatore
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.