Francis v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Hornsby v. Allen (1964), Pierce v. Albanese (1957)
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Soon Hing v. Crowley · Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves · Crane v. Campbell · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co. v. Vosburg
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But neither the power of the state absolutely to prohibit all traffic in alcoholic liquors nor the legislative declaration that a permit constitutes a privilege and not property renders inapplicable constitutional guaranties such as that of the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has a large discretion as to the means employed to protect its citizens against the evil incident to the liquor traffic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.