Johnson v. Brown’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. ““At common law a contract on Sunday was valid ; but in England, and in every state of the union, have been enacted what are familiarly known as Sunday laws, for the prevention of labor and business upon that day. Most of these statutes prohibit both labor and business ; and under the latter term the making of contracts has in many states been decided to be within the prohibition. Our own statute simply prohibits labor. . . . The thing prohibited is labor, and a contract made on any day to perform labor on Sunday, save the household offices of daily necessity, or other works of necessity or charity, is a contract to do a thing prohibited, and therefore void.””

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