Ware v. Ammon’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1957
12 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 Lawton v. Steele · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Tolliver v. Blizzard · Lawton v. Stewart Dry Goods 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No right of the citizen is more valuable than the right to earn his livelihood in any lawful occupation, and this right is protected alike by the federal and state Constitutions. Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana, 165 U. S. 588 , 17 Sup. Ct. 427, 41 L. ed. 382, 6 R. C. L. 260; Lawton v. Stewart Dry Goods Co., 197 Ky. 394 , 247 S. W. 14 , 26 A. L. R. 686. A necessary incident of this right is the further right to advertise one’s business in any lawful and proper way. Of course, the right to carry on a lawful business is subject to regulation under the police power. That power, however, is not unlimited. The rule is that, in order to sustain legislative interference with the business of the citizen the court must be able to see that the act tends in some degree to promote the public health, morals, safety or welfare. In every case the means adopted must be reasonably necessary to accomplish that purpose, and should not be unduly oppressive upon the citizen. The determination of the legislature as to these matters is not conclusive, but is subject to the supervision of the courts, and, if the above prerequisites are wanting, a law imposing unreasonable restrictions on a lawful occupation will be held void. Tolliver v. Blizzard, 143 Ky. 773 , 137 S. W. 509 [34 L. R. A. (N. S.) 890]; Lawton v. Steele, 152 U. S. 136 , 38 L. ed. 388, 14 Sup. Ct. 499.””
2 later decisions 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.