State v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1922
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Rau v. . People of the State of N.Y. · The Bd. of Commr's of Excise of Tompkins Cty. v. . Taylor · Commonwealth v. Blos · Godfreidson v. People · State v. Preston
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This “common beverage found in every locality, used more or less at certain seasons by all classes of our people, as well as for many culinary purposes, as for a beverage, would naturally be present in the minds of every legislator who was endeavoring to classify and arrange artificial drinks technically correct but not in popular understanding. The term should be construed according to universal use and understanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liquors' * * * embrace all malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, wine, porter, ale, beer or any other intoxicating drink, * * * and all malt or brewed drinks, whether intoxicating or not, shall be deemed malt liquors, * * * and all beverages containing so much as one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol by volume.' N ote e: 1. California: Stat. 1911, c. 351, § 21 (local option and license). '”
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.