Bailey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
March 2003
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Most-quoted passages
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“Any person who drives any vehicle upon a highway carelessly and heedlessly in wilful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, or without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property, shall be guilty of reckless driving....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Kesler
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