Peters v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2008
6 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 Hunt v. Montgomery County · Aravanis v. Eisenberg · Falcone v. Palmer Ford, Inc. · Zakrzewski v. Hyronimus · Vogelsang v. Sehlhorst
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhat constitutes the ‘main traveled portion of the roadway’ is incapable of a precise definition, and likely will vary with the physical facts prevailing in a particular case. We think these words were generally intended to distinguish that portion of the roadway actually and ordinarily used by the traveling public, whether for through driving or making a right turn....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Safe conditions required. — The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle to the right only if it is safe to do so. (c) Driving off roadway. — The movement described under subsection (b) of this section may not be made by driving off the roadway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Highway” means the entire width between the boundary lines of any way or thoroughfare of which any part is used by the public for vehicular travel, whether or not the way or thoroughfare has been dedicated to the public and accepted by any proper authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.