State v. Chisesi’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably 225 F. Supp. 353 - United States v. State of Louisiana (1963), Schwegmann Brothers Giant Super Mkts. v. McCrory (1959)
23 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Barbier v. Connolly · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In the course of the opinion in the case cited, the court quoted with approval from the opinion of Mr. Justice Bradley, in Butchers’ Union S. H. & L. S. Co. v. Crescent City L. S. L. & S. H. Co., 111 U.S. 746, 765 , 4 S.Ct. 652 , 28 L.Ed. 585, 590 , to the effect that to deprive a person of his right to pursue his chosen calling deprives him of his liberty, and to prevent his continuing in a lawful business or pursuit in which he is already engaged deprives him of his property, in the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’ (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“` * * * 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,' etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.