implied consent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 274 U.S. 352 - Hess v. Pawloski · 1927Most cited · 1,520 citing opinions
nonresident motorist
The state may declare that the use of the highway by the nonresident is the equivalent of the appointment of the registrar as agent on whom process may be served in proceedings growing out of such use. The difference between the formal and implied appointment is not substantial, so far as concerns the application of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “implied consent”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “implied consent” — 2,126 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1927–1953
In point of fact, however, jurisdiction in these cases does not rest on consent at all. * * * The defendant may protest to high heaven his unwillingness to be sued and it avails him not. The liability rests on the inroad which the automobile has made on the decision of Pennoyer v. Neff.
non-resident motorist