Broughton v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 5 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ . . . it is fundamental that except in emergency situations (and this is not one) due process requires that when a State seeks to terminate an interest such as that here involved, it must afford “notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case” before the termination becomes effective.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sinner

2. ““The suspension of a driver’s license, under the kind of statute and proceeding here involved, is not to punish the driver but to protect the public from those who have demonstrated that their driving presents a hazard to life and property.” Citing Bungardeanu v. England, 219 A. 2d 104 (D.C.Ct.App.1966).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sinner

3. ““(a) The Department may immediately suspend the license ... of any person without hearing and without receiving a record of conviction of such person of crime whenever the Department has reason to believe that such person— . . . ” [The statute then lists six causes for suspension.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sinner