Roach v. Lacho’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2013
11 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 Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward · Vietmeier v. Voss · Wilson Ex Rel. Wilson v. Shumate · Clark v. Sumner · Teters v. Kansas City Public Service Company
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Is this language intended to prohibit all vehicles from driving in the left-hand lane when approaching the crest of a grade, or does it mean, as plaintiff contends, that the prohibition applies only if the vehicle crosses over from right to left as it approaches the crest of the grade? We think it means the former, not the latter. A car which has been on the left side of the road for some time and remains there as it approaches the crest of the hill is just as much a hazard to traffic approaching from the opposite direction as a vehicle which crosses over into the left-hand lane when approaching the crest of the hill. We find nothing in the language of the statute, or in the evident purpose of the statute, which would cause us to construe it to be applicable only to those vehicles crossing over from right to left as they approach the crest of the grade. The intention of the legislature, we think, was to prevent all cars from being in the left lane when approaching the crest of a grade, not just those which cross over when approaching the crest. Consequently, we are of the opinion that the preposition ‘to’ as used in paragraph 4 is synonymous with ‘on’ or ‘upon.’ Obviously, if the preposition ‘to’ is synonymous with ‘on’ or ‘upon’ with respect to this situation (approaching the crest of a grade), it has the same meaning when applied to the other specific situations set out in paragraph 4, including travel in the left lane within one hundred- feet of an intersection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]aragraph 4 [of section 304.016] is not limited by its terms to vehicles overtaking and passing other vehicles. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of [section] 304.016 do apply specifically to overtaking and passing, but this is not true of paragraph 4. It makes no reference anywhere to overtaking and passing other vehicles, but starts out by saying that ‘No vehicle shall at any time be driven ... ’ It then goes on to spell out several specific situations in which no vehicle is to be driven ‘to the left side of the roadway.’ 10”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The object of [the statute] was to eliminate the hazard of cars being operated on the left side of the roadways under certain conditions and the object of [section 304.016.4] was to eliminate such hazard within 100 feet of intersections, and was for the benefít and protection of all persons and vehicles using the roadway at or near the intersection regardless of the direction they were traveling.”
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.