Harrell v. Scheidt’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Coman v. Thomas Manufacturing Co. (1989), Joyner v. Garrett (1971)
40 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 Hawker v. People of New York · People Ex Rel. Karlin v. Culkin · Commonwealth v. Funk · Prichard v. Battle · Commonwealth v. Ellett
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he revocation of a license to operate a motor vehicle is not a part of, nor within the limits of punishment to be fixed by the court, wherein the offender is tried.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to safeguard the use of our highways from those who are not qualified to operate motor vehicles, from those guilty of certain violations of our statutes regulating the use of motor vehicles, e.g.... drunken driving, etc., to exercise some measure of control over such operators, and generally to make uniform, so far as practicable, the granting or withholding of this privilege to operate a motor vehicle in furtherance of the safety of the users of the State’s highways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he purpose of a [driver's license] revocation proceeding is not to punish the offender, but to remove from the highway one who is a potential danger to himself and other travelers.”
1 later decision 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.