People v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1993
12 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 23 U.S.C. § 101 (America Fast Forward Financing Innovation Act of 2012)
Relies on Frohlick Crane Service, Inc. v. MacK · People v. Marques · 31 Colo. App. 518 - Waggoner v. Wilson · People v. Heckard · Alvarez v. District Ct. in & for City & Cty. of Denver
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway ... in excess of a maximum lawful speed of fifty-five miles per hour. Prima facie speed limits in excess of fifty-five miles per hour which were in existence prior to January 24, 1974, are hereby lowered to a maximum speed limit of fifty-five miles per hour. No speed limit shall be authorized above fifty-five miles per hour and all fifty-five-mile speed limits shall be considered maximum lawful speed limits and not prima facie speed limits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olinyk v. People
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.