Sahms v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1947
8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There is a difference between stopping and parking. The general purpose of the statute appears to be aimed at dead vehicles, i.e., vehicles that are unable to move under their own power and are left standing on the pavement. It is- also aimed at live vehicles that are able to move under their own power but are left standing on the pavement without watchman or caretaker, and also to vehicles that are able to move but are standing on the pavement to serve some purpose of the occupant or occupants. We think the idea of the legislature was to keep the improved highways open for travel and free from nonmoving vehicles. This purpose would not prohibit a temporary stop for a necessary reason. See 1 'Blashfield’s Cyclopedia of Automobile Law, p. 558.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle on the beaten track or paved surface of any highway outside the limits of any village or city.” 1 Comp. Laws 1929, § 4718 (Stat. Ann. § 9.1586).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.