Sturgill v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In all cases the Legislature selects the subject, and indicates the public policy with respect thereto. The subject is thereby brought within governmental control. Its free indulgence is deemed harmful. To so determine is the exclusive prerogative of legislation. The selection of the persons, places, and times, and the regulation of the conditions upon which it is to be exercised, are matters of executive detail, which may be, and which are always, delegated to the ministerial body * * * ” See also Craig v. O’Rear, 199 Ky. 553 , 251 S.W. 828 (1923); Sturgill v. Beard, Ky., 303 S.W.2d 908 (1957), and Sims v. Reeves, Ky., 261 S.W.2d 812 (1953), and Guthrie v. Curlin, Ky., 263 S.W.2d 240 (1953).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovern v. Brown

2. ““It is now too late to contend that a citizen of this Commonwealth is born with a natural and irrevocable ‘right’ to operate a motor vehicle on our public roads, because it is now a privilege granted by a license of the state, subject to reasonable regulations by the state in the exercise of its police powers, (citing cases and texts). Hence, when the conditions imposed by the license are violated by the licensee, the suspension of the privilege to operate a vehicle is not a denial of ‘due process of law’, (citing cases).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Craig v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Safety