Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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29 federal appellate · 22 district · 89 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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Conceding, without deciding, the power of the state, where it has placed the control of the sale of all liquor within the state in charge of its own officers, to provide an inspection of liquors shipped into a state by residents of other states for use by residents within the state, it is clear that such a law to be valid must not substantially hamper or burden the constitutional right on the one hand to make, and on the other to receive, such shipment.””

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Granholm Governor of Michigan et al. v. Heald et al. · Minneapolis Brewing Co. v. McGillivray

2. ““That every fermented, distilled or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any state or territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such state or territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such state or territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such state or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.””

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pabst Brewing Co. v. Crenshaw · State v. Pabst Brewing Co.

3. ““First Beyond dispute, the respective states have plenary power to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors within their borders, and the scope and extent of such regulations depend solely on the judgment of the lawmaking power of the states, provided always, they do not transcend the limits of state authority by invading rights which are secured by the constitution of the United States, and provided, further, that the regulations as adopted do not operate a discrimination against the rights of residents or citizens of other states of the Union. Second. Equally well established is the proposition that the .right to send liquors from one state into another, and the act of sending the'same, is interstate commerce, the regulation whereof has. been committed by :the constitution of the United States to congress, and hence that a state law which denies such a right, or substantially interferes with or hampers the same, is in conflict with the constitution of the United States. Third. It is also .certain that the settled doctrine is that the power to ship merchandise from one state into another carries with it, as an incident, the right in the receiver of the goods to sell them in the original packages, any state regulation to the contrmy notwithstanding; that is to say, that the goods received by interstate commerce remain raider the shelter of the interstate commerce clause of the constitution until by, a sale in the original package they have been commingled with the general ma”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Minneapolis Brewing Co. v. McGillivray · Kansas City Breweries Co. v. Trickett