State v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Andrew Aikens v. State of Wisconsin No 3 Albert Huegin (1904), Tanner v. Little (1916)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 · Lawton v. Steele · Barbier v. Connolly · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We come, then, to the question whether the act before us is one which falls within the police power of the legislature; for, if it is not, it is clearly an unlawful interference with private right. We will endeavor to test this question by the simple process of elimination. First, then, Does said act look to or in any manner concern the public health? No one claims that it does, and no one could for a moment claim with, any basis of reason that it has, or was intended to have, even the remotest bearing thereon. Second, Does the act look to or tend to promote the public safety? Nothing of this sort, either, is claimed in its favor, and we fail to see that anything could be, for it bears no relation whatsoever thereto. Having thus eliminated two of the general grounds upon which said act must be supported as being a valid exercise of the police power, we come to the third and last one, which raises the question whether the act relates to or tends to promote the public morals.” (State v. Dalton, 22 R. I. 77, 82.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson““ ‘It may be demoralizing to legitimate business for two great rival dry goods houses to cut prices in the attempt to undersell each other, or for two competing railway lines to sell tickets at half price in the attempt of each to get an advantage over the other, yet probably no one would claim that such competition could be prohibited by law. “Bargain sales” and “bargain counters” may be demoralizing to business, but probably no one would claim that they can be abolished by law.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.