Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1941
20 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 Intoxicating-Liquor Cases · Holmes v. . Carley · State v. Bancroft · Bertrand v. State · King v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it should now be held that Jamaica ginger prepared in accordance with the United States Pharmacopoeia is an intoxicating liquor per se, it would result in making every person who had manufactured drugs containing enough alcohol to intoxicate a felon. It would make every person who sold it guilty of selling intoxicating liquors, and it w4uld make every person who had these medicines in his house or possession guilty of a misdemeanor. We cannot believe that the Legislature intended so drastic a situation. The evils intended to be prevented were the evils of intoxication. If a person sells a medicine as a beverage, he may be punished for so doing, but, as long as it is lawful to sell a medicine, it cannot be a crime to have possession of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sandman
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.