Shue v. Scheidt’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2000
17 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 Commonwealth v. Ellett · Childress v. Abeles · In Re Revocation of License to Operate a Motor Vehicle of Wright · State v. Norris · Harvell v. Scheidt
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The operation of a motor vehicle on a public highway is not a natural right. It is a conditional privilege which the State in the interest of public safety acting under its police power may regulate or control, and suspend or revoke the driver’s license. In re Revocation of License of Wright, 228 N.C. 584 , 46 S.E. 2d 696 ; Commonwealth v. Ellett, 174 Va. 403 , 4 S.E. 2d 762 . As this Court said in Harvell v. Scheidt, Comr. of Motor Vehicles, 249 N.C. 699 , 107 S.E. 2d 549 : ‘. . . the suspension or revocation of a driver’s license is no part of the punishment for the violation or violations of traffic laws. . . . 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 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.