Smith v. Mahoney’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
April 1991
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Bell v. Burson · Aguchak v. Montgomery Ward Co., Inc.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having a [driver's] license is a privilege, not a right, and holders of a license are presumed to know the law upon which the privilege is conditioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jorgensen v. Larsen
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.