State v. Carlisle’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2002
19 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 People Ex Rel. Karlin v. Culkin · Commonwealth v. Funk · Commonwealth v. Ellett · Joyner v. Garrett · Fox 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of a [driver's license] revocation proceeding is not to punish the offender, but to remove from the highway one who is a potential danger to himself and other travelers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he revocation of a license to operate a motor vehicle is not a part of, nor within the limits of punishment to be fixed by the court, wherein the offender is tried.”
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.