Wells v. Malloy’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1995
1 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Bell v. Burson · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · United States v. Kras · Ciuzio v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue is really whether it is easier to find someone to drive one’s own car if one cannot drive, or to obtain a registered automobile for one’s own use if one can drive but has no other car. Seen in this light, we cannot conclude that suspension of driving privileges is any more harsh or coercive than refusal to register a motor vehicle... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leverson v. Conway“‘Vermont may no longer be thought of as having only dirt roads and an inadequate transportation and highway system.’ (quoting Miller v. Malloy, 343 F. Supp. 46, 50 (D. Vt. 1972)). It is certainly possible to get from place to place using public transportation or by taking advantage of the good nature of friends or family members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leverson v. Conway“It seems clear that “Although a driver’s license is an important property right in this age of the automobile, it does not follow that the right to drive is fundamental in the constitutional sense.” Wells v. Malloy, 402 F.Supp. 856, 858 (D.Vt.1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.