Windham v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2009
22 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `motor vehicle carrier' [as used in the portion of the Code concerning the regulation of motor vehicles for compensation] means every corporation or person ... owning, controlling, operating or managing any motor propelled vehicle... used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation over any improved public highway in this State[.]”
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.