Crook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 8 state decisions

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

1. ““This section of the Code was considered by the court in the recent cases of Lakeside Inn Corp. v. Commonwealth, 134 Va. 696 , 114 S. E. 769 , and Pirkey Bros. v. Commonwealth, 134 Va. 713 , 114 S. E. 764 , 29 A. L. R. 1290 . In the latter ease, the very able and illuminating opinion by Judge Burks expresses fully our views on the question of Sunday observance, religious liberty, a Christian state, the constitutionality and the construction of the statute as applied to the facts in that case. At page 722 of 134 Va., 114 S. E. 766, he says: ‘While the provisions of the statute, therefore, cannot be enforced as a religious observance, the great moral force that is back of it will make itself felt in its enforcement in conformity with the views of that force.’ Referring more specifically to a proper construction of the statute at page 726 of 134 Va., 114 S. E. 768, he speaks thus: “ ‘ * * * The statute should have a reasonable construction so as to promote the end for which it was enacted, and thus cover every class of labor at every trade, calling or other business not excepted by the statute. The statute should also be construed in the light of the age in which we live, recognizing the fact that there are things which the community regard as necessary that were not necessities when the statute was first enacted; that, to escape the penalty pronounced by the statute, the labor performed must be of the class excepted by the statute, or recognized by the community as a necessity,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Broad-Grace Arcade Corp. v. Bright

2. ““If a person on a Sunday be found laboring at any trade or calling, or employ his apprentices or servants in labor or other business, except in household or other work of necessity or charity, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars for each offense. Every day any person or servant or apprentice is so employed shall constitute a distinct offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Broad-Grace Arcade Corp. v. Bright