Hannabass v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Prichard v. Battle (1941), Harris v. T.I., Inc. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Virginian Railway Co. · Atwater v. Lober · School Board of Stonewall District v. Patterson & Miller · Commonwealth v. Armour & 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The enactment of the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs ’ License Act by the Legislature was designed under the police power of the State to protect the use of the highways from those who are not qualified to operate motor vehicles, to exercise some measure of control over such operators and generally to regulate, standardize and make uniform, so far as practicable, the granting or withholding of this privilege in furtherance of the safety of the users of the highways of the State.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must ... presume[] that the [General Assembly] acted with full knowledge of the strict interpretation that must be placed upon a statute of this nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he common law is not to be considered as altered or changed by statute unless the legislative intent be plainly manifested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyman v. Glover
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.