Snell v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The machines involved are coin insertion machines and there is no skill exercised by the player in playing them. After the player deposits his initial coin or coins, it is possible for him to secure free games on the machines and it is possible for him to cash in these free games for an over-the-counter payoff because the record shows that these free games may be cancelled, erased and removed from the machines by merely pressing a button located in the rear of the machine. * * * * * * “The distinction at issue is the element of time necessary to convert these machines into automatic pay-offs. In the case at bar it takes up to 40 hours and perhaps less for a competent mechanic to do so. In the cases heretofore decided by the Supreme Court it took a matter of minutes to remove the plug in order to restore the machines to good working order. “We see no error in the opinion of the District Court and for these reasons the judgment is affirmed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vaughan v. Dowling