Maurer v. Boardman’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Maurer v. Hamilton (1940), Commonwealth v. Mikulan (1983)
7 federal appellate · 54 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 302 · 49 U.S.C. § 304 · 49 U.S.C. § 325
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Hess v. Pawloski · SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. · Sproles v. Binford · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promote the safety of persons and property within the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plenary power of the legislature so to regulate the use of the highways of the Commonwealth is of ancient standing. The regulation may not, of course, ... violate fundamental rights guaranteed by our own Constitution. [The legislature] alone has the power to regulate the manner and circumstances under which automobiles may be operated upon the highways of the commonwealth. This power is vested in the Legislature, and is based, not only upon its right to control and regulate the use of the highways, but is buttressed by the inherent police power of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“above the cab of the carrier vehicle or over the head of the operator of such carrier vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maurer v. Hamilton
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.