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· 4/28/1913

St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Burckett

Citations

  • 229 U.S. 603
  • 33 S. Ct. 773
  • 57 L. Ed. 1347
  • 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2476

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing “[t]he drunk driving laws of this State are . . . . regulatory and protective, designed to remove violat[or]s from the public highways as quickly as possible”
  • recognizing “[t]he drunk driving laws of this State are hardly remedial in nature. They are regulatory and protective, designed to remove violat[or]s from the public highways as quickly as possible”
  • “[D]runk driving laws . . . are protective, designed to remove violat[or]s from the public highways as quickly as possible.”

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