State v. Macek’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We come, then, to the last and only serious question in this lawsuit — the constitutionality oí the ‘bone-dry’ law. Appellant says that it is unconstitutional and void, and cites many a respectable authority and precedent from Blackstone’s time down to yesterday to that effect. But they all stop yesterday ! The times change. Men change, and their opinions change; their notions of right and wrong change. The United States, its government and people, have come a long, long way since the Washingtonian society was organized in 1840 to combat intemperance. A whole generation of Americans has been bom and educated, and has grown to maturity and taken its dominant place in the electorate and in official life, since instruction in the evil effects of intoxicants upon the human system became compulsory in our public schools. (Laws 1885, ch. 169; Gen. Stat. 1915, §9034.) That is the leaven which has leavened the whole lump. ‘Learn young, learn fair,’ is an old adage whose efficacy was never better proved than in the practical annihilation of the liquor traffic by the unnoticed, but persistent, work of the public schools for the last thirty years. While we of an earlier generation continued to argue the pros and cons of the liquor traffic, and the wisdom, or folly, or impossibility, of suppressing the sale and use of intoxicants, a generation arrived which will have none of it; that generation has said so as clearly and emphatically as the American people ever voiced their determinatio”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Bieber