Harvell v. Scheidt’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably State v. Warren (1960), Anderson v. Commissioner of Highways (1964)
34 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 State v. . Harris · Carolina-Virginia Coastal Highway v. Coastal Turnpike Authority · Pue v. . Hood, Comr. of Banks · Thompson v. Smith · In Re Revocation of License to Operate a Motor Vehicle of Wright
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well to keep in mind that the suspension or revocation of a driver’s license is no part of the punishment for the violation or violations of traffic laws. It will be deemed that the court or courts in which the licensee was convicted, meted out the appropriate punishment under the facts and circumstances of each case. The purpose of the suspension or revocation of a driver’s license is to protect the public and not to punish the licensee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Wilkins“[D]oes not contain any fixed standard or guide to which the Department must conform in order to determine whether or not a driver is an habitual violator of the traffic laws. But, on the contrary, the statute leaves it to the sole discretion of the Commissioner of the Department to determine when a driver is an habitual violator of such laws.”
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.