Jacob Ruppert v. Caffey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

68 federal appellate · 56 district · 66 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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is also well established that, when a State exerting its recognized authority undertakes to suppress what it is free to regard as a public evil, it may adopt such measures having reasonable relation to that end as it may deem necessary in order to make its action effective. It does not follow that because a transaction separately considered is innocuous it may not be included in a prohibition the scope of which is regarded as essential in the legislative judgment to accomplish a purpose within the admitted power of the government. * * * ****** * “The statute establishes its own category. The question in this court is whether the legislature had power to establish it. The existence of this power, as the authorities we have cited abundantly demonstrate, is not to be denied simply because some innocent articles or transactions may be found within the proscribed class.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jefferson Cty. Dist. Co. v. Clifton, Dep. Com'r · Quality Food Products, Inc. v. Beard

2. ““If the war power of Congress to effectively prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in order to promote the nation’s efficiency in men, munitions, and supplies is as full and complete as the police power of the states to effectively enforce such prohibition in order tp promote the health, safety, and morals of the community, it is clear that this provision of the Volstead Act is valid, and has rendered immaterial the question whether plaintiff’s beer is intoxicating. For the legislation and decisions of the highest courts of nearly all of the states establish that it is de.emed impossible to effectively enforce either prohibitory laws or other laws merely regulating the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, if liability or inclusion within the law is made to depend upon the issuable fact whether or not a particular liquor made or sold as a beverage is intoxicating. * * * A test often used to determine whether a beverage is to be deemed intoxicating, within the meaning of the liquor law, is whether it contains one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume. * * * The decisions of the courts, as well as the action of the Legislatures, make it clear — or, at least, furnish ground upon which Congress reasonably might conclude — that a rigid classification of beverages is an essential of either effective regulation or effective prohibition of intoxicating liquors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Christian Feigenspan, Inc. v. Bodine

3. ““The state,, within the limits we have stated, must decide upon the measures that are needful for the protection of its- people, and; having regard to the artifices which are used to promote the sale of intoxicants under the guise of innocent beverages, it would constitute an unwarranted departure from accepted principle to hold that the prohibition of the sale of all malt liquors, including the beverage in question, was beyond its reserved power.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jefferson Cty. Dist. Co. v. Clifton, Dep. Com'r