Munz v. Harnett’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1962
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 Sproles v. Binford · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Packard v. Banton · Sprout v. City of South Bend
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.
“shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed nor shall any other motor vehicle be thereafter registered in his name while any such judgment or judgments remain unstayed, unsatisfied and subsisting, until said judgment or judgments are satisfied or discharged, except by a discharge in bankruptcy, to the extent of or at least five thousand dollars for an injury to one person in one accident, and to the extent of ten thousand dollars for an injury to more than one person in one accident, and to the extent of one thousand dollars for an injury to property in any one accident, and until the said person gives proof of his ability to respond in damages, as required in section ninety-four-c of this chapter for future accidents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reitz v. Mealey“in the event of his failure within fifteen days thereafter to satisfy every judgment * * * for damages on account of personal injury, including death, or damages to property in excess of one hundred dollars, resulting from the * * * operation of a motor vehicle by him, his agent, or any other person for whose negligence he shall be liable and responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reitz v. Mealey
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.