Ross v. Macduff’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1973
17 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 American Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Matter of Marburg v. Cole · Matter of Mandell v. Board of Regents · De Lynn v. Macduff · Matter of Johnston v. Fletcher
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The circumstances under which a licensee may be deemed "guilty of habitual or persistent violation" vary with the changes in highway conditions, amount of traffic, type of control, power and speed of vehicles, changes in local traffic regulations and ordinances and a myriad of other elements which necessitate the delegation of the formulation of specific rules to administrative officials * * *.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The petitioner attacks the determination [of the hearing commissioner] on various grounds, principal of which is the alleged unconstitutionality of section 71 (subd. 3, par. [d]) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in that legislative functions have been delegated to an administrative body without providing any criteria or standards defining the words ‘habitual’ or ‘persistent’. This is wholly without substance and must be rejected, as such a requirement in respect to the administration of the traffic rules should be left to the reasonable discretion of the administrative official [citations omitted]. “The circumstances under which a licensee may be deemed ‘guilty of habitual or persistent violation’ vary with the changes in highway conditions, amount of traffic, type of control, power and speed of vehicles, changes in local traffic regulations and ordinances and a myriad of other elements which necessitate the delegation of the formulation of specific rules to administrative officials [citation omitted].””
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.