Williams v. Fears’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67 federal appellate · 40 district · 130 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 397 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “right to remove from one place to another according to inclination”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Helms · 33 Va. App. 561 - Hicks v. Commonwealth

2. ““It would seem, moreover, that the busines sitself is of such a nature and importance as to justify the exercise of the police power in its regulation.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hunt. · People v. Brazee

3. ““And so as to the right to contract. The liberty, of which the deprivation without due process of law is forbidden, ‘means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties, to be free to use them in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling, to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moyers v. City of Memphis · Hutchins v. District of Columbia