Freitag v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 1377 · 1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1992
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Monroe v. Pape · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · City of Kenosha v. Bruno · Morgan 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the commissioner shall be satisfied that the applicant is of good character and reputation and is a suitable person to be entrusted with driving a public passenger vehicle he shall issue the license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“governmental licensing body which judges the fitness of an applicant must afford that applicant adequate notice and a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to . . . infirmity of . . . mind . . . which may render him unfit to drive a public passenger vehicle.”
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.