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← 57 Wash. App. 127 - State v. Clifford

57 Wash. App. 127 - State v. Clifford’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2019

13 state decisions

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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 Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “free to travel public roads using alternative means of transportation, such as horseback, bicycle, taxi, or public transit. Requiring them to obtain a driver's license prior to operating a motor vehicle does not unconstitutionally infringe upon their freedom of movement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “to make the highways as safe as possible by requiring each potential operator to demonstrate a knowledge of rules and regulations of the road, a history of compliance with those rules and regulations, and the physical ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]here is no less restrictive means available to satisfy the State's compelling interest in regulating the driving of motor vehicles”
    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.