Commonwealth v. London’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The only question left for determination is: Did the lower court properly conclude that appellees had a right to keep their place of business open and sell bread, butter, sandwiches, chocolate and coffee? In disposing of these articles, appellees were doing the business of a restaurant keeper; they are charged in the petition, however, with keeping a confectionery, but the petition also specifically names the articles which they sold and which we think, for all intents and purposes, would class them as restaurant keepers. The public, especially the traveling public, of necessity has to obtain something to eat on the Sabbath, and appellees had as much right to keep their house open and furnish the articles named to the public as did any hotel or other place in Danville. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McAfee v. Commonwealth