Commonwealth v. Halteman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Virnelson Motor Vehicle Operator License Case (1968), Commonwealth v. McCartney (1971)
51 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Commonwealth v. Funk · Commonwealth v. Emerick · Commonwealth v. Daven · Bureau of Highway Safety v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Herzog
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 618(e) of The Vehicle Code of 1959, P. L. 58, 75 P.S. Section 618, provides: ‘The secretary is hereby authorized after a hearing before the secretary or his representative, or upon failure of the said person to appear at such hearing, to suspend the operator’s license or learner’s permit of any person licensed in this Commonwealth, upon receiving notice of the conviction of such person in another state of an offense therein which, if committed in this Commonwealth, would be grounds for the suspension or revocation of the license of an operator.’ . . . “The legislature required only ‘notice’ of conviction in another state. It did not require a certification or a certified record of the conviction as it did from the clerk of the courts and the public utility commission for certain offenses referred to in Section 616 and Section 617 of The Vehicle Code, supra, 75 P.S. Section 616 and Section 617. The reason is obvious. Under Section 616 and Section 617, supra, the secretary acts upon the certification without a hearing. . . “A hearing on the question of suspension is not a criminal procedure. The question is whether the operator may continue to exercise a privilege. Procedural and evidential burdens may be placed upon those seeking to exercise a privilege that may not be placed upon those charged with crime, or even upon those defending property rights. For example, one seeking the privilege of operating a motor vehicle on the Commonwealth’s highways is required to take”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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