Dinger v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Fowler v. Park Corp. (1984), Barbieri Ex Rel. Barbieri v. Morris (1958)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Daily v. Maxwell · Sluder v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Harry Cooper Supply Co. v. Gillioz, 5560 (mo.banc 6-16-1937) · Charlton v. Jackson · 235 Mo. App. 1245 - Saunders v. Prue
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of statutes regulating and effecting automobile traffic on the highways is the promotion of the safety of the public. They are valid exercises of the police power. Automobiles may be safer than horse-drawn vehicles when prudently driven but the special training required for their operation and their potential power to harm when improperly operated imposes a duty to keep them out of the hands of the immature, the incompetent, and the reckless. The facts of the instant case demonstrate the wisdom of the legislation. Our statutes declare that one under the age of sixteen years conclusively does not possess the requisite care and judgment to operate motor vehicles on the public highways without endangering life and property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LeCave v. Hardy““It follows that there is no authority to issue a driver’s license to one under the age of sixteen years, and that the license secured by Charles Dinger was void and of no effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The commissioner shall not issue any license hereunder: “1. To any person, as an operator, who is under the age of sixteen years . . .””
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.