People v. Lessar’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2006
17 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Bell v. Burson · Moore v. District Court in & for City & Cty. of Denver · Maryland-National Capital Part and Planning Commission v. James T. Lynn, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development · Crowther v. Seaborg
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to licensing does not automatically spring to life at the end of the period of ineligibility, as if the order never had been entered. Rather, the completion of the term of revocation or denial merely makes the driver eligible to apply for a new license. The issuance of a new license is expressly conditioned upon compliance with the terms of the denial order. Until the driver complies with those terms and obtains a new license, his driving status as “revoked” or “denied” continues .... The construction employed by the district court would vitiate the public safety purposes of the Uniform Traffic Code by permitting a person to drive upon the public streets and highways after an order of denial and nevertheless escape prosecution ... merely because the act of driving occurred after the three month period of ineligibility for licensing .had expired. We reject such construction as unreasonable. Before a person against whom an order of denial has been entered is entitled to operate a motor vehicle, he must reapply for a new license at the end of the period of denial, pay the restoration fee required ..., file proof of financial responsibility ... and must be in receipt and possession of the new license. Unless and until these conditions are satisfied, his driving status as “denied” continues and he is subject to prosecution ... for driving under denial. Since the defendant did not take these steps after the termination of the three month period of denial had expired, he”
4 later decisions 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.