Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1999
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the State must use reasonable care in maintaining the shoulder of a highway, there is no basis to hold that a difference of three or four inches in the levels of the road and shoulder constitutes a dangerous condition per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alsup v. State“upon all roadways of sufficient width, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway.” Exceptions to this rule do not apply in the incident case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alsup v. State
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.