State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A ‘manufacturer’ is one who makes or fabricates anything for use, and within the literal definition of ‘manufacturer! would come a tailor who works clothes into suits for wear. So, too, a seamstress would be brought within such a definition, for she makes handkerchiefs from linen; and the carpenter, who takes raw lumber prepares it for building a. house; and a milliner, who makes and sells bonnets; and a blacksmith, wlio makes horseshoes or forges iron: and the cook, who makes bread or other articles to use as food; and many other persons, whose pursuits in life demand the working of some materials into certain forms. * * * We know of no technical meaning to be given to the word ‘manufacturer,’ used in the statute, and it is our best judgment that it should be understood in its popular sense. AVe therefore would include among the manufacturers those who produce goods from a raw state by manual skill and labor, and goods which are commonly turned out of factories, and we would exclude a merchant tailor, who merely cuts and fashions a suit of clothes as ordered by a customer, from cloth purchased elsewhere, and kept to be made up as suits are ordered from him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re I. Rheinstrom & Sons Co.