State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Tri-State Hotel Co. v. Londerholm (1965), Ware v. City of Wichita (1923)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · Quong Wing v. Kirkendall · Central Lumber Company v. State of South Dakota · Stephen Otis Joseph Gassman v. E a Parker
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The assumption that the police power extends only to the protection of the health, safety and morals of the public, which was at one time -quite general, is now out of date. The modern view is that the state may control the conduct of individuals by any regulation which upon reasonable grounds can be regarded as adapted to promoting the common welfare, convenience, or prosperity. (6 R. C. L. 203, 204.) . . . “The question for our determination is not whether in our judgment the objections urged against the trading-stamp device, on which the statute is based, are sound, but whether they are so plainly unsound that they may be confidently characterized as unreasonable and capricious. . . . ' "Whether the plan may reasonably be expected to cause improvident purchases; whether in practice it does so; and whether it tends to mislead the buyer; are questions for the final determination of the legislature if there is any reasonable ground whatever for a difference of opinion on the subject. ... We acquiesce in the view of the federal supreme court that there is sufficient room for a reasonable difference of opinion as to whether the ‘premium system’ is attended with evil consequences to the public, to place the affirmative decision of that question by the legislature beyond the reach of the courts, and, therefore, that a statute which places a special burden upon a business employing that device does not thereby so far infringe upon individual freedom of action and contract as to t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There seems to be a widespread belief that there is an element of possible deception in this aspect of the scheme. Whether .the plan may reasonably be expected to cause improvident purchases; whether in practice it does so; and whether it tends to mislead the buyer; are questions for the final determination of the legislature if there is any reasonable ground whatever for a difference of opinion on the subject.” (p. 799.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the furnishing or issuance of any stamps, coupons, tickets, certificates, cards, or other similar devices, redeemable at their face value, in cash or merchandise from the general stock of said merchant at regular retail prices at the option of the holder thereof.” (Laws 1917, ch. 331, § 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.