Shivers v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a special statute, a police regulation “of the highest type” with which “absolute technical compliance” is required, the provisions of which are “rigidly enforced” and as to which there are “no exceptions to conform to intentions.” The statute is “drastic, mandatory, and intended as a police regulation in the interest of the public welfare to prevent traffic in stolen automobiles,” “to aid in the apprehension of criminals, and to protect the innocent and guileless from the machinations and wiles of the wicked.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bolt v. Giordano

2. “It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or sell in this state any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this state, unless, at the time of the delivery thereof, there shall pass between the parties such certificates of ownership with an assignment thereof, as provided in this [S]ection, and the sale of any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this state, without the assignment of such certificate of ownership, shall be fraudulent and void.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bolt v. Giordano