Leighton v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Tolson v. Hodge (1969), Harris v. Bates Ex Rel. Curry (1954)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Hess v. Pawloski · Markham v. Allen · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Wuchter v. Pizzutti
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a valid exercise of police power, and is not in conflict with the requirements of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Motor vehicles are dangerous machines, and, even when skillfully and carefully operated their use is attended by serious dangers to persons and property. In the public interest the state may make and enforce regulations reasonably cal'1 culated to promote care on the part of all residents and nonresidents alike who use its highways. The measure in question operates to require a nonresident to answer for his conduct in the state where arise causes of action alleged against him, as well as to provide for a claimant a convenient method by which he may sue to enforce his rights.” 274 U.S. at page 356 , 47 S.Ct. at page 633 .”
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.