Wise v. McCanless’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1983
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 McCanless, Com'r v. Klein · Kelly v. Conner · Newbern v. McCann · Grills v. Mayor of Jonesboro · Maxwell v. Corporation of Jonesboro
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the appellant has no ‘property right’ in his license, such civil right as he does have under the permit issued to him by the express authority of the statute may be protected against invasion by operation of a regulation unreasonable and oppressive in its application to him. “No strict property right, in the accepted definition of that term, need be involved. Assuming that he is without fault, the holder of a permit issued by the express authority of the legislative act is the holder of a lawfully conferred privilege in the exercise of which, in good conscience and equity (signifying, as said by Bouvier (1 Bouv. Law Diet., Rawle’s 3d Rev., p. 1057), in its broad sense natural justice), is entitled to protection for the period of his permit. This is consistent with the manifest intention of the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.